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INTRODUCTION
8. Hand 4: Orthography. Consonants. (i) There is intrusive b in
‘umb rgdur’ 211/37.
(ii) (c) is rarely written except in (ck); ‘myclu’ 224/77 is an isolat-
ed ex.
(iii) d is assimilated in ‘margfallri’ 221/10, ‘ellz’ 240/4. Earlier ö/þ
has become t in ‘uocktu’ 239/10, ‘krept(-)’ 239/20, 21, 26.
(iv) Intervocalic / is commonly but irregularly spelt (fu>, e.g.
‘grafuar’ 222/2, ‘hefuir’ 223/50, Tifui’ 224/72, ‘lofuaði’ 229/30:6,
Tofua’ 239/26. Cf. ‘heruiliga’ 214/34. ‘iafn-’ is the general form but
‘iam-’ appears in ‘iamskiott’ 233/53:4, 237/73:3, ‘iamlangur’
237/77:3. On (ft> spellings see (ix) below.
(v) Palatalised g is indicated in forms of gjöra, and once in ‘giek’
228/28:2 (elsewhere ‘geck’). g unvoiced before s is seen in the back
spelling ‘heilagleigs’ 221/14. Intervocalic and final g is infrequently
spelt (gh): ‘heilagha’ 225/23, ‘sigh' 218/41, ‘doghum’ 220/61, ‘seigh'
223/64, ‘hagh stqdann’ 235/63:4. g is lost in ‘mart’ 223/38.
(vi) Initial hr- is most often written (r). hl- and hn- are written (hl>,
(hn).
(vii) Short k is often written (ck>; conversely long k is sometimes
simplified. Refl. pron. sik is abbreviated ‘sc’ but written out ‘sigh’
218/41; elsewhere (g)/(gh> is not found for k, neither in prons. nor in
the adv. mjök.
(viii) Early attested loss of / is apparent in ‘Hiatlandi’ 240/12. (11) is
regularly written before old d and t. It is also found in ‘kualldiz’
235/65:2; elsewhere the Ið/lld distinction is evident, e.g. ‘dualdi’
216/19.
(ix) (pt> is normal in e.g. eptir, kraptr, opt, but dat. ‘greftre’, ‘grefti’
occur at 224/19:8, 225/10; cf. gen. ‘graptrar’ 224/19:2.
(x) (rr> is written in gen. sg. f. ‘nockurrar 236/72:7, cf. the same
form with (r> in ‘nauckuRar’ 215/3; and we find (r> in ‘annaRa’
215/12, 224/77, ‘faRa’ (gen. pl. of adj. fár) 231/40:3, but also as no
more than a variant graph in dat. pl. m. ‘NockuRum’ 235/63:1. There
is vacillation in the expression of nom. r after a long vowel: adj.
(ó)fœrr, for instance, appears as ‘í§r’ 223/47, ‘för’ 223/50, ‘fqrr’
229/30:4, ‘uför’ 232/51:2, ‘ufqrr’ 235/67:2; líkþrár is ‘lick þním’
224/19:5, ‘lick þrár’ 227/24:2; and nom. ‘siorr’ occurs at 240/1. After
short vowels final rr is simplified, e.g. in nom. sg. m. ‘huer’. rl assim-
ilation is doubtless indicated by spellings like ‘ferlli’ 215/9, ‘uarlla’