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(vi) The inf. of mega is written ‘mega’; third pl. pres. indic. is
‘megu’ at 12/36, 14/33, 54, ‘mega’ at 12/42, 22/14. Pres. subj. forms
are ‘ek mega’ 16/23, ‘þer megit’ Þs. 185/19. Third sg. and pl. pret.
subj. is ‘mætti’, ‘mætte’ 14/47, 33/7.
(vii) Third sg. forms used in the first person occur here and there; in
the indic. ‘Ek getr’ 16/13, ‘ser eck’ 16/22, ‘hefir ek’ 17/27, ‘ek hefir’
22/13-14, ‘eker’ Þs. 180/11, 186/37, ‘erek’ Þs. 192/16; inthe subj. ‘at
ek profui’ 9/9, ‘aðr ek anðiz’ 39/26-27.
(viii) The inf. is ‘hogga’ 14/12, pp. ‘hogginn’, ‘hoGÍnn’ Misc.
59va29, 59vb5, 59vbl8.
(ix) Pret. sg. of kjósa is ‘kaus’ 20/15, Þs. 197/38, pp. ‘kiorinn’ Messusk.
112/12, ‘kosinn’ Þs. 195/9.
(x) Pret. sg. of stíga is ‘steig’ 15/15, 39/17, ‘ste’ Misc. 59va38.
(xi) First person pl. of sjá in the present tense is ‘siaaum’ 41/1, in the
pret. ‘sám’ 24/19, 28/17; cf. ‘siænði’ 4/11, 15, ‘slændi’ 9/8, 13.
(xii) Pret. forms are first sg. ‘þottumz’ 9/4; third sg. ‘snere’ 46/9;
third pl. ‘biuggu’, ‘biuGu’ 18/3, Misc. 59vb40; ‘dð’ 33/13.
(xiii) Pres. subj. forms of vera are second sg. ‘ser’, third pl. ‘sé’.
First pl. subj. of hafa, tala are standard ‘hafuim’ 18/17, ‘talim’ 25/25.
Third pl. pres. subj. of sjá is ‘siæe’ 25/9, pret. ‘sæe’ 24/33, 39/3.
(xiv) Second sg. imp. of sjá is ‘séé’ 37/28. The same case with suf-
fixed pronoun is found in ‘Heyrdu’ 40/11, ‘Sigrazstu’ and ‘sigradu’
Þs. 208/13, 14.
8. Adverbs. (i) The regular form is brott, whether independent or
compounded, but the vowel is double marked in ‘i brþttu’, 10/37 (dat.
‘brottu’ is otherwise rare); ‘brutt’ appears once in Þs. 184/5.
(ii) ‘ual’ is written throughout.
(iii) ‘Snemmendis’ occurs at 3/2, ‘snimma’ at Þs. 179/20.
(iv) ‘higat’ is the regular form, but both ‘þagat’ and ‘þangat’ occur,
the former at 28/3, 31/32, the latter at 27/15 and Þs. 189/24.
(v) On the neg. adv. eigi see VI 10 (i); ekki is also used adverbially;
ei is rare, noted in Gþ, 13/2 (above the line with an insert mark),
14/25, 15/32, but nowhere else.26
26 Other forms peculiar to the Gþ text are noted in VI 13 (iv) and VII 8 (v). The ei form
at 14/25 is probably editorial but the others may have been lifted from the exemplar
from which the L editor borrowed his story of Gísl. Such an exemplar would then have
been of no great age.