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acc. sg. f. ‘aungua’; gen. sg. m. and n. ‘engis’; dat. sg. f. ‘ongri’; dat. sg.
n. ‘ongu’.
(v) Demonstratives and the article. Nom. sg. m. is both ‘sia’ (‘sea’)
and ‘þessi’. Extended forms, ‘þessaRar’, ‘þessaRa’ and so on appear to
be regularly used, though dat. sg. f. ‘þessi’ has also been noted. Nom.
and acc. pl. n. appear as ‘þessor’, ‘þessur’. When not abbreviated ‘þ1’,
the dat. sg. n. því is always written ‘þvi’. The datives þeima and þvísa
occasionally occur. The freestanding article is virtually always in hi-;
e- and i- forms are very rare.
(vi) Verbs. Loss of final m and ð, as in ‘megu vær’, ‘megi þer’, oc-
curs but is not regular. ‘þicki mer’ is commonly found. Second pers.
sg. of vilja is ‘villt’. Third pers. pl. of eiga is ‘eiga’, of mega both
‘mega’ and ‘megu’. The verb forms játa and játta appear side by side.
Past part. of þola is ‘þolt’. Past part. of kjósa as adj. appears variously
as ‘korinn’, ‘kiorinn’, ‘kosinn’. First pers. pl. of sjá is regularly ‘seam’,
‘siam’, ‘siaam’; cf. the restored ending in ‘truum vær’. Second pers. pl.
of sjá is the newer form ‘seait’ (= sjáið; for older séð). Older subj.
endings often remain (‘at ek finna’, ‘at vid skiptim’, ‘at vær faim’), but
the indic. ending appears for instance in ‘þo at vær verðum’. In the
first pers. sg. present and past indic. and subj. third sg. endings are
common: ‘er ek’, ‘hefir ek’, ‘biðr ek’, ‘væntir ek’, ‘iatar ek’, ‘fær ek’,
‘truir ek’, ‘villdi ek’, ‘ek atti’, ‘ek hugði’; ‘(at ek) megi’, ‘blezi’,
‘vinni’, ‘at ... audliz ek’, ‘þott ek væri’ (for other middle voice exx.
see Kjartan G. Ottósson, The Icelandic Middle Voice, 275). The verb
gera, gjöra has regular pret. forms in ‘giorð-’, with occasional in-
stances of past part. ‘gort’ and ‘gert’, and ‘eptir bæn giorva’ is
matched once by ‘eptir bæn gcrua’. The inf. and present tense forms
are normally abbreviated ‘ger-\ but noted once written out, ‘geriz’.
(Pret. ‘gc/'ði’, ‘gerðv’ occur in 220 VI.) It may be noted that adj. gjöri;
adv. gjörla, subst. gjörð are always spelt with (gi). On the middle
voice endings, predominantly (z), see Kjartan G. Ottósson, The Ice-
landic Middle Voice, 266.
(vii) Adverbs. The scribe always writes ‘alldri’, ‘umbergis’, ‘vel’;
the neg. adv. is ‘eigi’, more often ‘ei’, abbreviated ‘e1’; both ‘miðr’ and
‘minnr’, ‘brot(t)’ and ‘braut’ are found.
(viii) Prepositions. Uncommon variety appears in forms for “be-
tween, among” (with or without a preceding prep. á or í)\ ‘milli(m)’,
‘millum’, ‘miðal’, ‘miðil’, ‘meðal’.