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INTRODUCTION
form ‘no/ds’ 71ral3 is probably a straightforward error; cf. ‘\and-
norþurs’ 71ra27.
(xii) Long s is written <f) in nom. sg. m. ‘sonlavf’ 70ral7; 5 is writ-
ten <ff> in gen. ‘herbergiff’ 69vb29. Round <s) represents ss only in
abbreviated gen. ‘þs ’ found at the end of lines 70ra40, 70va39, else-
where written ‘þeff’.
(xiii) On final <t) in past parts. see (ii) above. <t) is regularly written
in at and hvat. Pret. sg. of sitja appears as both ‘sat’ and ‘satt’, the lat-
ter at 69va22, 70ra24.
(xiv) <x) occurs only in numerals and the name ‘Kirialax’.
(xv) <z> is written in ‘bleza’, ‘gæzlumann’, ‘Galizuland’, ‘Gizur(-)’
(but not in ‘gudspiallara’). It appears as the gen. ending after Id, nd, ll
and nn\ e.g. ‘Haralldz’, Tandz’, ‘Hallz’, ‘mannz’ (abbreviated ‘mz’);
and after t in ‘Knutz’. Miklagarðr has gen. both in ‘-gardz’ 69vb8,
70vb23 and ‘-gards’ 71ral4 but gen. -s is normally written <s> after ð,
e.g. ‘Adakads’, ‘guds’. On <z) in middle voice and superlative forms
see below.
(xvi) <þ> is conventionally used; on its appearance for ð see (ii)
above.
13. Hand5: Superlative and middle voice forms. (i) Superlative adj.
and adv. forms in <st> are normal in ‘first’ (fjarri), ‘flest’, ‘mest’,
‘ngstu’, and after r in ‘framarst’, ‘stgrstu’. <z> is final in adv. ‘yz’ (út),
‘skiotaz’. Other forms show <zt>, <zst>, and <st>: ‘agætaztir’, ‘uitrazta’,
‘bezt(-)’, ‘siþsamazstir’, ‘bezstr’, ‘fræknazstr’, ‘helgastir’.
(ii) The middle voice ending is normally <z> but ‘sneruzst’ occurs
69va30-31, and there are two curious instances where the scribe is ap-
parently anticipating this <zst> ending and writes ‘profazist’ 69vbll,
‘andazist’ 70rbl5.
14. Hand 5: Some other forms. (i) Gen. pl. of son(r) is ‘suna’ 70ra9;
dat. of f. pl. dyrr is ‘dyrum’ 69vb29; acc. pl. of gjöf is ‘giafar’ 70va39.
Regular forms are ‘hertogi’ and ‘jarteikn’. Uncommon substantives
are (normalised) guðspjallari, frjálsi (= frelsi), sofarar (besides
sofendr).
(ii) The comp. of gamall is ‘ellri’.
(iii) The sg. f. pronoun is ‘hon’. Forms of the neg. pron. and adj. are
nom. sg. m. ‘eingin’, acc. sg. ‘ðnguan’, ‘ðngan’, dat. sg. ‘ongum’; dat.
pl. is ‘eingum’, ‘ongum’.
(iv) The article is in h- throughout. Weak declined arts. occur in acc.