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gathering, and it does not occur in 220 VI. A related observation can
be made in the case of (;), used after round letters and <g). It is made
either with a <2>-like figure on the line or with a <3)-like figure with a
tail which sometimes goes well below the line. The <2>-like figure at
first predominates in Stock. 5, in a ratio of about 2:1, but by the end
of the texts about Guðmundr the ratio is about 1:1. This same propor-
tion is also evident in 220 VI and 122 a. This would support the con-
clusion that of these texts Stock. 5 was the first to be written.
Small capital <g> with or without a superior dot is used for gg.
<m> and <n> are often written with the final minim elongated below
the line.
Long-shafted <r> was mentioned above as characteristic of the
scribe’s writing in Stock. 5 and 220 VI but, as remarked by Stefán
Karlsson, short-shaft <r> appears usually in Latin words and sporadi-
cally in Icelandic words, more frequently towards the end of the text.
See e.g. in Stock. 5 ‘nðc/ura’ 38ra9-10, ‘iænglifr’ 38ra27, ‘Sturla’,
‘Sturlu’ 38ra28, 40rb4, ‘eyrindit’ 38ra29, ‘uurdu’ 38rb 11, ‘sterkt’
38rbl3, ‘sealfr’ 38rb40, ‘efra’ 45rbl5, 37; in 220 VI ‘fo;reði’ 2v22,
38. <r> represents both r (usually in conjunction with a preceding ab-
breviation mark) and rr, when dotted it always stands for rr.
<y> is <y5>, undotted. Made as <v> with an ogonek hook, often quite
small.
3. Hand 1: Orthography. Vowels and sonants. (i) Adj. langr is com--
monly spelt with <aa>, as are e.g. (h)álf(-), skálm, Kálfr. ‘Skalhollt’ has
been noted once, usually ‘Skala-’. vá is often written <uaa> but numer-
ous spellings with <uo> occur, ‘uoru’, ‘huorki’, ‘tuo’, ‘uoloðum’.
(ii) e sometimes appears diphthongised before ng, ‘eingi’, ‘leingr’,
‘heingianda’. <e> is unusual in endings but regular in dat. ‘henne’,
‘henne’. Long e may be written <ee>, ‘seeð’, ‘seez’. It is infrequently
written <ie> after /: ‘liet(u)’, nom. pl. n. adj. ‘liett’. The first person pl.
pronoun is written out ‘vær’, ‘v^r’.
(iii) -indi is the normal suffix but ‘binðendi’ also occurs. The
spelling ‘thyng eyrum’ at 8vb36 is not uncommon; see Um ísl.
orðmyndir, xvii, with an ex. from DI III, 74 (1353), and reference to
AM 180 b fol. (c. 1500).
(iv) Long o may be written <œ>, e.g. ‘Niðar œss’, ‘rœt’, ‘oosinn’. <o>
sometimes occurs medially for usual <u>; it has not been noted in end-
ings, but váru, tóku are abbreviated ‘v°’, ‘t°’.