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INTRODUCTION
VIII. Jóns saga Hand B: Notes on forms.
1. Nouns. (i) Dat. sg. of báss is ‘báis’ 33/20 (cf. ‘basinum’ 33/11, 17),
of kórr ‘kór’ 9/5 (cf. ‘korinum’ 28/31), of söngr ‘sonG’ 40/3. Nom. pl.
of the last word is ‘songar’ 47/12, acc. pl. ‘songua’ Messusk. 110/29,
Þs. 193/26, 194/1.
(ii) The form is ‘morgin(-)’ at 10/33, 33/3, 45/25, ‘myrgin(-)’ at
25/16, 33/10, 48/19.
(iii) The M-stems limr and siðr have acc. pl. ‘limu’ 12/8, ‘siðu’ 25/2,
29. Son(r) has acc. pl. ‘sonu’ 6/25, 28/20 but ‘syni’ 6/20, 26/11.
(iv) The common form is ‘iartein’ but ‘iarteig(h)n’ has been noted
at 3/21,5/27,47/16.
(v) gjöf is declined as an i-stem, 13/16, 15/37.
(vi) Numerous fem. i-stems originally in -un appear throughout in
-an, ‘huggan’, ‘vitran’, ‘skipan’, ‘iðran’, ‘ætlan’ and others; gen. sg. in
-un- has been noted once, ‘midlunar’ Messusk. 109/35.
(vii) Numerous f. nouns in -ing that appear in oblique cases include
framning, fyrirlitning, sjónhverfing, merking, játning, virðing, kosn-
ing, stýring, setning, gisting, næring. The only instances to show an
inflectional ending in -u are acc. ‘drottninguna’ 4/7, dat. ‘drottningu’
5/17 (but ‘drottninginne’ 4/5), and dat. ‘fyllingu’ 3/20.
(viii) Dat. pl. of dyrr is ‘dyrum’ 24/18, of lykill ‘lycklum’ Messusk.
108/17.
2. Adjectives and comparison. (i) The acc. pl. f. of ýmiss is ‘ymiss-
ar’ 29/15, the dat. pl. normal ‘ymsum’ Þs. 193/26.
(ii) The neg. adj. shows nom. sg. m. and f. ‘engi’ at e.g. 28/24, 34/8;
acc. sg. m. ‘ongan(n)’ 30/12, Þs. 202/33; acc. sg. f. ‘onga’ 44/3,
‘ongua’ Messusk. 111/28; gen. sg. m. ‘e(i)nskis’ 26/12, Þs. 206/45;
gen. sg. f. ‘ongrar’ Þs. 185/24; dat. sg. n. ‘ongu’ 16/23; nom. and acc.
pl. f. ‘ongar’ Misc. 58vb23, Þs. 187/24; acc. pl. m. ‘onga’ 31/11, Þs.
188/3; dat. pl. m. ‘Ongum’ 28/58. Cf. 4 (iv) below.
(iii) Comp. of gamall is ‘ellre’ e.g. 18/9, 28/32.
(iv) Superlatives in -st when not followed by an inflectional ending
are written with final <z>, <zt), <zst>: ‘hellz’ (the usual form), ‘efz’,
‘bez’, ‘bezt’, ‘bezst’ (the commonest form); ‘beðz’ 8/18 is exception-
al. Before an inflectional ending the spelling is <zt) or <zst): ‘inztum’,
‘minztan’, ‘efzsta’, ‘æzsta’, ‘jafnlyndzstir’; <st>, as usual, in other
monosyllabic words, including those with a root ending in a nasal:
‘fyrst-’, ‘mest-’, ‘næst-’, ‘hit fprsta’ (-fæsta), ‘uænstr’, ‘fremstr’. Adj.