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THE L RECENSION
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pl. m. ‘hinu bezto Jarlldóma’ 70rall and, with a demonstrative, acc.
pl. n. ‘þau hinu fyrri’ 70vb40.
(v) Only þessi is found as the nom. sg. m. of the demonstrative, old-
er sjá. Dat. sg. n. of demonstrative sá is ‘þui’ or abbreviated ‘þ1’.
(vi) Third sg. pres. of munu is ‘man’, pret. ‘munde’, pl. ‘mundo’.
The inf. and third pl. of mega are both ‘mega’. Pret. of valda is
‘uolldi’ (counted a norwegianism by Jón Þorkelsson, Beyging sterkra
sagnorða, 519-20); of flýja always in ‘flyd(-)’; of snúa ‘sner-’; the
only occurrence of játa/játta is pret. ‘iatade’.
(vii) Neg. adv. eigi is written ‘eigi’ and appears abbreviated as ‘e1’;
brott, brottu are written ‘brott’, ‘brottu’; ‘uel’ is the only form.
(viii) Among prepositions the scribe writes ‘med’, ‘m;’ and ‘uit’,
‘uid’ (usually abbreviated ‘up, ‘v1’); ‘(i) millum’, ‘(a) mille’; ‘or’.
(ix) The concessive conj. is ‘þott’; at 70ra30-31 with line-division
‘þot/tu’ = þótt þú. Particle er is inserted in ‘spurþu ... huat er uolldi’
Wxbll.44
(x) The names Edward and William occur frequently and appear in
various guises: ‘Jat(t)uardr’, ‘Ed(d)uardr’, ‘Iauardr’, ‘Vilialmr’, ‘Vil-
hialmr’; the eke-name of the latter is always ‘basthard(r)’. Godwin is
‘Gudini’, ‘-a’, but the gen. once ‘Guðins’ 70ra9, closer to Old English
Godwines. Henry in the gen. is ‘Heirateiks’ 70va25, a form that seems
unparalleled and is probably a misspelling.
XI. Stock. perg. fol. nr 5. Some general observations.
The cursory survey above shows clearly enough that Hand 1 is that of
a man trained in an older school than the other scribes. His use of
long-shafted <r) and his discriminating use of <ð) and <d> and <r) point
to an apprenticeship probably in the second quarter of the fourteenth
century, as do the absence of the svarabhakti and the virtual absence of
<fu> and <gh> spellings. He prefers <u> to <o> as the neg. prefix. ‘Hun’,
his regular f. pron., ‘ifir’, ‘firir’, <giæ>, <kiæ>, and <eing> spellings
doubtless reflect his own pronunciation. Typical forms are neg. adv.
‘ei’ besides ‘eigi’, ‘þui’, ‘Skalaholt’, ‘iartegn’, adv. ‘vel’.
Hands 2, 3 and 4 have certain features in common which suggest
the same kind of scribal education. Since Hand 2 does not write a for-
44 Cf. Bandle, 365-66.