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‘huartueggia’, ‘uðrkunn’, ‘uon’, ‘uijndra’, ‘uaag’ 236/68:1 but ‘uog’
236/69:2.
(ii) <e) is written for the short and long vowel but the latter is some-
times indicated by <ee>, e.g. ‘fee’ 214/35, 37, ‘reed’ 225/39, 42, rarely
by <é), e.g. ‘fé-’ 222/17. Diphthongisation is indicated in ‘hiellt’
223/63 (cf. ‘hellt’ 213/13, 19); pret. pl. of heita is ‘hetu’, ‘hétu’
231/44:2, 234/60:2, but also ‘hietu’ 231/44:2, ‘heitu’ 234/57:2,
236/71:1. The only instance noted of the change of e to ei before ng is
‘teingdir’ 214/28.
(iii) Forms of adj. mikill are commonly in ‘mi(c)k-’ but e.g. ‘mykit’,
‘allmykit’ and ‘myclu’ also occur at 222/14, 232/48:3, 224/77.
(iv) Long o is sometimes marked, e.g. ‘þð’ 210/14 (pret.of þvá),
‘bptar’ 227/24:4, ‘kyn stðrr’ 230/34:1, ‘sOttur’ 215/4.
(v) Third sg. pres. subj. of skulu is ‘skoli’ 210/22. Analogical initial
v appears in ‘uordin’ 224/9, 227/24:7; cf. e.g. ‘ordit’ 226/22:2, ‘ordn-
ar’ 227/24:5. The svarabhakti is frequently expressed, e.g. ‘dyrdligur’
224/74, Titur’ 224/76, ‘uetur þungur’ 226/20:3, ‘heilagur domur’
239/12.
(vi) _y is unrounded in forms of þykkja. It remains in yfir, fyrir.
(vii) ö (q, 0) is usually represented by <o> but sometimes by marked
<o> «ð>, <Q», e.g. ‘dðgum’ 212/46, ‘dpgum’ 213/22. Oblique cases of
the neg. pron. are usually spelt ‘ong-’, but ‘aungra’ occurs 215/6. The
word nokkur(-) is usually written with <o> but gen. sg. f. is ‘nauck-
uRar’ at 215/3. Unmutated ‘hafn’ occurs at 235/64:3; cf. ‘hofn’
236/71:4. An unmutated medial vowel in trisyllabic forms is very rare:
‘þionastu gerd’ 209/3, ‘hinum uitrazstum monnum’ 225/22. Note
‘þeim siolfum’ 216/16.
(viii) Exx. of the commonest <q> and «> spellings of æ are ‘hQrstu’
210/10, ‘grgtt’ 236/69:2, ‘Qttlada ek’ 222/26, ‘qsiligur’ 228/28:2, ‘ef
ek dga’ 222/26, ‘at hann g?fui’ 237/75:1.
(ix) Diphthong au is written <o> or marked <o> in ‘ögum’ 224/78,
‘drqmum’, ‘dromum’, ‘drðm’, ‘drominn’ 221/70, 225/32, 43,
226/20:7; cf. ‘drauminn’ 225/39. <ey> is the spelling in ‘eylif-’ 218/43,
240/29. The mutated breaking product is written <io>; the first syllable
of djöful(-) is twice spelt ‘dyof-’, 240/20, 27.
(x) -endi is the ending in ‘eyrendi’, -indi in ‘tidindi’; ‘bindandi’
(subst.) occurs at 217/30. <i> and <u> are usual in medial and final syl-
lables. ‘kinnqrnar’ 234/57:4 is exceptional.