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both ‘harðla’ and ‘hardla’, ‘uesolð’ and ‘vesuld’ occur. Past part.
‘tiaðh’ is presumably inadvertent (the next word begins with <h)).
After k older ðlþ commonly becomes t: ‘samþykt’, ‘med virktum’,
‘styrkti’, ‘tiltekt’, ‘uakti’.
(ii) Palatalised g is regularly indicated in ‘giorði’ and so on, the usu-
al pret. forms of gera, gjöra, and the words ágætr, í gær, for example,
are commonly spelt with <gi). -ligt is often spelt ‘-likt’. ‘margt’ is the
normal form but ‘mart’ has also been noted. There are rare instances
of initial g remaining before / and n, ‘gliklikt’, ‘gnott’, ‘gnogum’. The
spelling <gh> is rare: exx. noted are ‘nógh’, ‘dagh’ (at the end of a
line), ‘j nogh’, ‘almaattighum’.
(iii) Initial hl-, hn-, hr- are usually written with <h). The only excep-
tions noted are forms of hlutr, often in <1>, and adv. ‘ryggiliga’, subst.
‘rygð’, personal name ‘Rafn’. h is lost in ‘af guðs aalfu’, a phrase
which occurs elsewhere with ‘haalfu’.
(iv) kæ is frequently written <kiæ>, e.g. in forms of adjs. kærr,
skærr. k becomes g occasionally in acc. pronouns ‘mig’, ‘þig’, ‘sig’,
while <g) in ‘miog’ (‘miðg’, ‘miaug’) is a common feature. kv is some-
times abbreviated <q>, especially in the word ‘qeld’ (cf. ‘aiqðnum’ in
220 VI), but it can also be written out as <qu>, e.g. ‘quad’ 33ra34,
‘quelldit’ 36vbl6.
(v) <1I> is usual before d and t. Assimilation of d in a cluster is seen
in ‘einfalleiks’.
(vi) n and nn are not consistently distinguished.
(vii) <pt> spellings are regular in e.g. eptir, aptr, skript, kraptr,
kjaptr, gipt, typtan.
(viii) r and rr are distinguished according to the norm. Among the
few exceptions noted are ‘faaRa’, gen. pl., beside ‘faara’, usual ‘fyR’ but
‘fyr nefndir’, nom. ‘Arnor’ and ‘Arnor/-’, ‘siorr’. The scribe writes
‘kyrt’, cf. dat. ‘kyRu’. <r> is regular in forms like ‘uaaRar’, ‘þessaRa(r)’,
‘siþaR(-)’. /-, apparently assimilated, is omitted in e.g. ‘uestr’, ‘fyst’,
‘kosbræðr’, ‘smysl’.
(ix) Small capital <s>, with or without a superscript dot, represents
55, but <ff> occurs in e.g. ‘lauff’, nom. sg. m., and third person verb
forms Teff’, ‘kyff’.
(x) Final t in an end syllable often becomes ð (with corresponding
back spellings of <t> for ð). Dual pron. vit is regularly written ‘við’,
‘uið’. ‘að’ for at is rare; ‘huað’ for hvat is common.