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INTRODUCTION
23/9-10, ‘þessari hrædiligri sijn’ 36/29. Definition cannot be offered
in dat. pl. instances, ‘þeim lærdum monnum’ 15/4, ‘þeim somumm
(somu H2) gliufrumm’ 78/62, ‘sijnumm vonndumm fortolumm’ Gþ (L
12/15), ‘sijnum Heilogum honndumm’ Gþ (L 14/28 t.n.), but ‘þeim
hinum dijrligu’ 19/26. The comparatives, probably regarded as sub-
stantivised, have -um in ‘hinum Elldrumm’, ‘hinum yngrumm’ 14/12,
but the comparative is given no dat. ending in ‘hinum virduligri monn-
um’ 13/25. Instances of a weak declined art. form are in ‘til þessara
hinnu helgu orda’ 29/12, ‘þessar hinu vestu mijs’ 35/23-24. The comp.
is ‘bættara’ Gþ (L 11/10 ‘bætra’). Earlier -st- superlatives are usually
extended to produce -ast- forms, e.g. ‘þeckiligasti’, ‘fiolmennastur’,
‘virduligasti’, ‘storfeinngastar’; ‘hinn kiærsti Broder’ 15/5 and ‘hinn
skijrstu votn’ 33/33 are exceptions. The superlative of þungur is
‘þunngastur’ 12/30.
3. Pronouns, pronominal adjectives, demonstratives. The sg. f.
pron. is ‘hun’. First pers. pl. pron. is more often ‘vier’ than ‘vær’; the
latter occurs at 31/11, 32/7, 53/8, 54/19, 76/5; H1 has ‘vær’ where H2
has ‘vier’ Gþ (L 12/4), and H2 has ‘vær’ where H1 has ‘vier’ 76/10,
98/1. Dual ‘þid’ appears for ‘þier’ in ‘Eigi skulu þid’ 44/7. ‘einhuor’
(n. ‘eitthuortt’) has ‘ein-’ as the first element except in ‘eins huorja
nott’ 25/1. In H1 ‘huortueggi(a)’ is declined in both elements in ‘huor-
ummtueggium beinunum’ 39/6, ‘huoratueggiu kistuna’ 39/7, where
H2 has ‘huoru-’; both have ‘huor tueggi’ {skip, pl.) 74/3, ‘huors tueg-
gia’ 19/6. N. of nokkur is ‘nokkud’ as both adj. and pron., with the
casual ‘nockud minnur’ at 31/23 (cf. S 20/45 ‘nockvrv minnR’). Nom.
sg. m. of the neg. pron. and adj. is ‘einginn’ (no f. or n. exx.), gen. sg.
m. ‘einnskis’ (cf. Málblöndun, 95); other oblique cases are in <ong>;
on preservation of -u- in these see V 5 above. Nom. sg. m. and f. of
demonstrative “this” is always ‘þessi’. Acc. sg. m. is always ‘þenn-
an(n)’. Forms of poss. adj. yð(v)ar are ‘ydartt’ 20/11, ‘ydamn’ 20/12,
‘yduari’ 78/54, ‘ydvarnn’ Gþ (= L 12/42, 44), ‘ydrer þegnar’ Gþ (L
12/13 t.n.); replaced by the gen. pron. in pl. n. ‘verk ydar’ 20/12 (cf.
Málblöndun, 94). There is indeterminate adjectival ‘huad’ in ‘huad
elldurinn er heitari’ Gþ (L 12/23 ‘huðrr’). Interrogative hvaða (< hvat
at) appears in ‘huada Okyrleik’ (dat.; ‘-leika’ in H2) 36/19.
4. Numerals and day-names. Dat. of tveir is ‘ij!’ in H2, i.e. ‘tueimur’,
but simply ‘ij.’ in H1 74/1. The “decade” noun is ‘tigur’ (once gen.
‘Tugar’ in H2, 29/21; pl. ‘tigar’ 83/30 is in both texts but appears