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INTRODUCTION
‘órvænt’ 79/15; and occasionally as (au) (though never before ng).
This (au) spelling is regular in the names Ögmundur and Össur, spo-
radic elsewhere: ‘aurvasti’ 22/30, ‘audru’ 41/1, ‘aunnur’ 77/3, ‘Aud-
rumm’ 89/1, ‘aufunndudu’ 32/5, ‘aunndverdri’ 53/3, ‘aureiga’ 53/19,
‘audlast’ 76/9. Cf. Málblöndun, 80: “Sárasjaldgæft er að hann [Þorleif-
ur] noti ‘au’ nema þar sem það er gert í forriti.”
In H2 ö is usually written (o>, apparently as (ö> in ‘Siöunda’ 32/1.
(au> spellings are found in the same words with (au) just quoted from
H', and elsewhere they are a good deal commoner than in H1, espe-
cially frequent in ‘aull(-)’, ‘aunnur’, ‘audru(m)’, comparatively fre-
quent in ‘faudur(-)’, ‘faustu(-)’; in oblique cases of enginn five (aung)
spellings have been noted against sixteen in (ong).
In both texts older ömbuna is ‘vm(m)buna’.
8. In H1 rising diphthongs are uniformly written (ia>, (io>, (iu>; in
H2 with both (i> and (y>, e.g. ‘syalfum’, ‘fyar-’, ‘fiol-’, ‘fyol-’, ‘liös-’,
‘fyöss’, ‘fyotradur’. Both have pret. pl. ‘biuggu’, ‘hiuggu’.
9. au is regularly written (au>, but in H2 twice as (o>, ‘Gotlande’ (H1
‘Gaut-’ 12/70), ‘loginne’ (H1 Taug-’ 77/24). On (au> for ö see 7
above. The adv. form is in ‘burt(-)’ with ‘braut’ noted in H1 only at
12/20, 15/48, 32/15, 77/30, 92/11; H2 has the same instances except
‘burt’ for ‘braut’ at 77/30.
In H1 (ei> is frequently written for ey, e.g. ‘eg heirda’, pp. ‘heirtt’,
‘geima’, ‘Reina’, Teister’, Teini-’, ‘-neiti’, ‘Reikur’; ‘ey’, neg. adv.,
and ‘eylif(-)’ are usual but otherwise (ey> for ei has been noted only in
‘Þorgeyr(i)’ 84/2, 24. In H2 (ey> is often written for ei but (ei) for ey is
rare, e.g. ‘leiniliga’ (so also in H1 33/18); both (ei> and (ey) appear in
adj. eileylíf-', ‘ey’ is often written where H1 has neg. adv. eigi in full or
abbreviated.
10. Þorleifur Jónsson usually writes (i> in medial and end syllables
except before final -r where (e> is the rule when unabbreviated (cf.
Málblöndun, 82). He has rare medial (e>, usually alongside minims,
e.g. ‘bænena’ 49/26, ‘Twnenu’ (L 16/17); cf. Málblöndun, 82-83. He
has various exx. of final (e>, e.g. ‘hafe’ 2/5, ‘Jsleife’ 4/5, ‘lijfe’ 9/8,
‘blije’ 18/6, ‘siae’ 20/11, ‘huse’ 20/20, ‘Byskupe’ 49/32, ‘nese’ 74/25;
and where developed forms like ‘vilie’ (subst.), ‘vilie(d)’ (second
pers. pl. verb) and ‘þridie’ occur. Jón Pálsson writes final (e) much
more frequently. He too has spellings like ‘vilie’, ‘þridie’; also occa-
sionally (gie> in the words ‘Jllhugie’ 13/24, ‘hofdingie’, ‘hinn