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INTRODUCTION
‘giptt’, ‘loptt’, ‘optt’, ‘skriptt’. The conjunction is abbreviated ‘þt’ but
the particle is written out as ‘ad’, and <d> appears for older t in ‘huad’,
‘hid’, ‘hingad’, ‘mikid’ and so on. Prefix at- also occurs as ‘ad-’ in
forms where at- predominates in the modem language, e.g. in ‘ad-
burdur’, which is always so except once with ‘at-’ in H2, 26/9. In H1,
however, Þorleifur Jónsson generally follows the rule that final <t> is
appropriate in pp. endings and the n. suffixed art. when the preceding
syllable ends in d/d: ‘lidit’, ‘Radit’, ‘halldit’, ‘brugdit’, Tandit’,
‘kuolldit’, ‘holldit’, ‘hofudit’, ‘hæginndit’, and so on (cf. Málblöndun,
90). There are some exceptions: ‘audid’ 13/21, 28/19, ‘smijdad’
18/11, ‘lanndid’ 13/10, 47/4, 58/10, ‘stadid’ 20/33, ‘lided’ 25/26,
‘Radid’ 32/4, ‘áákuedid’ 76/16; and H2 uses final <d> throughout.
16. On <x> see 5 above.
17. On <z> see 14 above.
18. <þ> is used conventionally but <Th> is preferred in the name
Þorlákur except once in H1 at 44/5.
VII. H' and H2: Notes on forms.
Except where variants are noted, the forms recorded in the following
paragraphs are common to both H' and H2.
1. Nouns. Nom. ‘mann’ appears 2/2. Nom. ‘fader’ and dat. ‘fodur’
are the only forms of this word noted. Nom. ‘moder’, e.g. 4/2, acc.,
gen. and dat. ‘modur’, e.g. 78/18, 3/2, 3/3, but also dat. ‘moder’ 46/12.
Nom. and dat. ‘dottur’ 3/14, 32/12, dat. ‘dotter’ 36/47. Acc. ‘syster’
33/25. On these mixed forms see Málblöndun, 170. When not suffixed
nom. ‘sonur’ is usual but ‘son’ occurs in Gþ (= L 10/5, 15/34). The
acc. pl. of w-stems retains the old ending: ‘sonu’, ‘háttu’, ‘knottu’,
‘sidu’, ‘limu’, ‘-fiordu’, ‘bogu’ (79/6, but H2 ‘Böga’). In H1 acc. pl.
‘manudu’ occurs at 51/2-3 but ‘manudj’ at 69/2; H2 has ‘Mánude’ and
‘manude’ in these instances. The acc. pl. of vegur is ‘vega’ 73/7. F.
nouns in -ing mostly have -u in the dat. (never in the acc.): ‘drottn-
ingu’ 3/12, 3/13, ‘lesningu’ 21/17 (‘-um’ H2), ‘setningu’ 23/2, ‘þrenn-
ingu’ 31/34, ‘lækningu’ 63/5 (‘Lækning’ H2), but not in e.g. ‘Bennd-
ing’ 37/16. Dat. -u appears in other f. words: ‘verolldu’ 31/32, ‘Gudr-
unu’ 36/23, ‘Oddniju’ 36/47, ‘molldu’ 39/7, ‘Jordu’ 53/24, ‘nottu’
41/29 (otherwise ‘nott’), ‘stundu’ (once ‘stund’). Danmörk (gen.
-merkur) has no ending in the dat. Gen. of nótt is ‘nætur’. Pl. oifótur