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THE H RECENSION
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‘tiadu’ in H' 15/20 but ‘tiedu’ in H2. At 23/30 pl. ‘þa’ in H2 may be
miswritten for ‘þa(g)u’, but may also parallel pret. pl. frá, a rhyme-
word in the fifteenth-century Svöldrarrímur (Olafs rímur Tryggva-
sonar B V 24, Rímnasafn, I, 211); see Um ísl. orðmyndir, 59, cited by
Jón Helgason, Málið, 83, as an analogy to pret. pl. þvó in NT Odds.
(iv) Pret. subjunctive: Old -a is found in ‘eg væra’ 10/5 (‘være’ H2),
‘villda eg’ Gþ (cf. L 14/38; L 15/5, 7; H2 has ‘villdi’ in this last place);
otherwise forms in -i: ‘þyrdi eg’ 41/15, ‘eg sæti’ and ‘villdi’ in Gþ (L
14/18, 15/18). Third pers. sg. ‘þurfti’ 92/4 appears without mutation in
H1, cf. ‘þyrffti’ H2, ‘þyrfti’ S 53/4; and apparently also at 15/38 in both
texts (it may be read as pl.; S 7/94 has ‘þyrptv’). H' and H2 have un-
mutated forms, presumably inherited, ‘taldist’ and ‘sagdi’ after ‘þott’
in 13/17. Third pers. pl. forms are virtually all in -i, but H2 has ‘fyndu’
where H1 has ‘fynndi’ Gþ (L 14/4), and ‘logdu’ where H* has ‘legdi’
71/8; H' has ‘o nijttust’ 95/3 where H2 has ‘önyttest’.
(v) Imperatives with suffixed pron. are ‘lattu’ 10/13, ‘Verttu’ 35/22,
‘Gacktu’ 28/14 (‘Gack þu’ H2); and derived from the last of these imp.
sg. ‘Gackt’ thrice in Gþ (L 14/31, 15/4, 19; ‘Gack’ in H2); other sg.
forms are ‘higg’, ‘hrædst’, ‘Sie’, ‘seig’, ‘þeigi’; pl. ‘Trui þier’, ‘fare þier’.
(vi) Participles: Adjectival pres. parts. occur rarely and are de-
clined: dat. sg. m. ‘sitianda’ 10/14, ‘lifanda’ 27/3. The pp. adj. of hef-
ja is ‘hafdur’, of kjósa it is ‘kosinn’.
(vii) The verbs munu, skulu, mega, kunna: There are isolated exx. of
man in the sg. of munu, but in H' only. Those noted are ‘man eg’ 15/14,
28/21, Gþ (L 12/40); ‘manntu’ 83/24; third pers. sg. ‘man’ 23/12, 28/21.
H' has ‘munj’ 15/8, ‘mun’ 15/26, pl. ‘munu’ 8/3; the corresponding
forms in H2 are ‘mun’, ‘mune’, ‘muni’. H' has ‘munda eg’ Gþ (L 14/36),
H2 ‘mundi’. At 74/8, where H' has ‘mællti ad þeir munndu’, H2 has the
form ‘mundi’. Pret. inf. is ‘munndu’ in H' 3/10, ‘mundi’ in H2.
Pret. subj. forms of skulu always have third pers. pl. in -u in H', but
H2 has pl. ‘skylldi’ 17/8, 31/4, 95/4.
The inf. is ‘meiga’, e.g. 28/21; third pers. pl. indic. is twice ‘meiga’
Gþ (L 12/36 ‘megu’, 42 ‘mega’), once ‘meigu’ (L 14/33 ‘megu’). Se-
cond pers. sg. interrogative is ‘Mattu’ 83/18 (‘Mátt þu’ H2). The first
pers. sg. pres. subj. is ‘meiga’ 35/26 (‘meigi’ H2), ‘meigi’ Sþ (L 16/23
‘mega’). The third pers. pl. pret. subj. is ‘mætti’ 24/3, Gþ (= L 14/47),
‘mættu’ 32/8. Pp. is ‘matt’ 76/18 (= S 43/18).
Pres. sg. subj. is ‘kynni’ in H', ‘kunne’ in H2, 26/7, 46/8.