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THE H RECENSION
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17/12. The def. art. is virtually always in <h>; the exceptions shared by H1
and H2 are ‘enn Næsta’ 1/4, ‘Enn siotta dag’ 43/1, while at 1/6 H1 writes
‘vetur inn mickla’, H2 ‘veturinn mikla’; in the few exx. elsewhere H2 has
<h) forms where H1 writes ‘enn helga’ 10/10, ‘Aenu Xij. áári’ 25/17, ‘enn
sæli’ 78/66, ‘enn helgi’ Gþ (L 13/8-9 ‘hinn heilagi’).
7. On palatalised k before æ see V 6 above. k is often written <ck),
more regularly in H2 than in H1, after a short vowel before a following
/, n, t, ‘mickla’, ‘micklum’, Tyckla’, ‘vacknadi’, ‘lycktumm’, ‘lyckt-
adri’, ‘vackti’ (cf. Málblöndun, 85, 153); in H2 after a long vowel or
diphthong as well, ‘söcktu’, ‘Kueickti’. H1 has <ck> in ‘Ercki byskup’
12/63, elsewhere ‘erki-’; ‘erchi-’ is the spelling in H2 throughout. <c)
or <ch) may be written in e.g. ‘Pasc(h)alis’, ‘patriarcha’, ‘Christ’. <ck>
is regular in ‘samþyck-’ but <k> is always written in forms of
þikja/þyk(k)ja (cf. V 3 above), and occasionally elsewhere, ‘þaker’
35/26 (‘þacker’ H2), ‘eki’ 39/7 (in both texts). Only initial <k> is found
in words like ‘knie’, ‘knottur’, ‘knappur’. In H' the pret. of sækja is in
<tt> except once ‘soktu’ 36/22; in H2 it is always in <ckt).
8. In both texts the combination II is always simplified in ‘lijtilæti’,
Tijtilat-’. <11> is virtually always written before t and older d, but <1)
before d from earlier ð: ‘dualdist’, ‘skildust’, ‘taldist’ (cf. 13/17 t.n.),
‘huldu’, ‘valdi’, ‘þoldi’, ‘fiold-’, ‘kuld-’. Cf. Málblöndun, 85-86, 156-
57. Gen. sg. f. ‘mikillar’, dat. sg. f. ‘mikilli’, and gen. pl. ‘mikilla’ are
found throughout H1, but ‘mikillra(r)’ and ‘mikillri’ are forms some-
times found in H2.
9. Medial and final <m> is often marked with a nasal stroke in H1.
In H1, but not in H2, it is omitted before the pronoun in e.g. ‘munu
vier/vær’ 15/12, 31/11, and in ‘odru meiginn’ 41/3. The form is
‘-skemill’ 10/9-10 (= H2; cf. S 3/7 with <f». H1 writes ‘fimm’ and
‘fimmt’ but H2 usually ‘fim’, ‘fimt-’.
10. Medial and final <n> is also often marked with a nasal stroke in
H1. A final <n> may be so marked in H2, but single <n> is usual inter-
nally before a consonant: ‘fanst’, ‘spenti’, ‘Jnsigle’, ‘rendi’, ‘fundust’.
Both texts have third person sg. ‘skijn’ 3/32; always ‘myskun’, gen.
‘myskunar’ (except with <nn> in H1 33/28); ‘pening’, acc., 74/10, and
‘himirijkis’ 98/14. Both write ‘vatnsins’ 72/10; the same word in the
next line, 72/11, is ‘vatnsinns’ in H1, ‘vatzins’ in H2.
11. Initial <p> is found in ‘psalm-’, ‘psalltar-’, always in H2 but not
invariably in H1 (‘salma’ 43/10, ‘salltara’ 85/14). Both texts simplify