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226/21:3. Either rs assimilation or influence from the comparative is
apparent in ‘hgrstu’, weak superlative pl. f. of adj. hár.
(xi) Small capital (s) = ss in ‘mesu(r)’ 209/1, 213/17.
(xii) Final t becomes <5 (written (d» in some weak-stressed words or
syllables, ‘huad’, ‘annad’, ‘þangad’, ‘nockud’, past part. ‘uered’. After
/• final t is often written (tt), e.g. past part. ‘gertt’ 209/8, 210/9, 213/27,
214/32.
(xiii) (x) is found only in forms of vöxtr and vax and in numerals.
(xiv) (z> is written in suffixed sl and sk after a dental: ‘fpdzlu’
216/22, ‘-firdzkr’ 228/27:1, ‘-lendzkr’ 229/31:1 (but ‘-lendzskr’
229/29:1). It is the standard gen. ending after //, nn, nd (with or with-
out omission of the dental), t (and tn): ‘allz’, ‘Hallz’, ‘aafallz’; ‘manz’;
‘lanz’, Tandz’, ‘Branz’, ‘Englandz’; ‘Uatzdal’ 225/35 (cf. ‘uatnz’
233/54:1), ‘rettlatz’, ‘andlaatz’, and internally in ‘hestzins’ 231/39:2. It
is further written in forms of bleza-; in dat. ‘godzi’ 233/53:1; and in
‘gudzspiallinu’ 209/32.
(xv) (þ> is conventionally used at the beginning of words or com-
pounded elements.
9. Hand 4: Forms. (i) Nouns. Usual forms are ‘sior’ (acc. and dat.
‘sio’), ‘natt’ (rarely ‘nott’), ‘morgin’, ‘eyrendi’ and ‘iartein(-)’. Nom.
pl. with suffixed art. ‘mennirnir’ occurs 225/28.36The acc. pl. is ‘man-
adi’ 222/3; ‘giafuir’ 222/18; dat. sg. ‘smiori’ 238/80:1. Two fem. -ing
nouns have n-endings in the dat., ‘ordsendingu’ 227/23:7, ‘uidr
komningu’ 228/28:3. Place-name Skálholt is always in the reduced
form.
(ii) Adjectives. As in Hand 3 in the Þs. text, nom. sg. m. of adj. vanr
is ‘uan’. Superlative suffixes are in (zst), rarely (st>, when not final, in
(z> when final (usually adverbial): ‘kunnazstr’, ‘uitrazstum’, ‘bezsta’,
‘feminzstur’; ‘nalpgstr’; ‘optaz’, ‘berligaz’, ‘bez’.
(iii) Pronouns. The fem. pron. is ‘hon’, dat. ‘henni’. Gen. sg. of
engi(n) is ‘enkis’ (pron.) 223/35, 232/46:2, ‘einskis’ (adj.) 239/9. Oth-
er oblique cases are in (ong), rarely (aung).
36 The earliest exx. of this form are said by Stefán Karlsson, EIM VII, 18, to occur in
the Wolfenbiittel codex and the Codex Wormianus of Snorra Edda, both “written about
the middle of the fourteenth century”. From about the same period may be added exx.
in Stock. perg. 4:o nr 18, 29rl7, written towards 1350 (EIM XVI, 38), and AM 229 IV
fol., Iv2, dated 1350-75 (Gyðinga saga, 1995, lviii).