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Single written double, finally: veitt 233 (a common type), komitt 1025
(only two such), dreymtt 216; sonn 238, vonn 258, sidann 238 (a common
type), bornn 721. Also, whether ‘finally’ or ‘medially’, in words such as
nyttsamlikt 327, attgiorfi 240; sionnhuerfing 984. There seem to be no ex-
amples with other consonants, except ódru viss 226, and goliggh l15
(otherwise -lig). An abbreviation resembling tt has been expanded as -att
in huatt (seven instances, e.g. I27; written huat once, 952), and in kuatt 526,
623 (no other spellings).
Single written double, medially (for words with Id/lld, see below): vitt-
rer 312'13, settiaz 433; vinnathu 33, vinngunar 85, tidinndi ll16, naudsynni-
um 425. Only exceptionally with other consonants, e.g. læggia 985, eykcr
441, jarllar l23, ohammingia 2U.
Double written single, finally: not 22, brat 235; jn l3, kristin l12, kongrin
613, man 1029; fek 43; mikil l6'7 (a common type), vinsæl 419; grim l21;
þes 232 (more common than þess). Also in words such as stormanlikt 66,
sanleik 997; ætlæri 244. Also in words such as annar l8, spyr 253 (a com-
mon type), fær (adjective) 458, where the spelling may express shorten-
ing.
Double written single, medially: fiolmenr 812, fanz 66, manz 104; natura
l21, setr (participle) 416; begia 223, legr 265. Only exceptionally with
other consonants: samþykiaz 923; grimr 1028.
Words with old Id are written with Id or lld, e.g. heldr (adverb) 463 (five
times with Id), helldr 23 (four with lld)\ skiold 1188, skiolld 1188; veroldina 79,
1110, verolld 966. The preterites of vilia and skulu (which occur frequently and
are always written out), and seldi at its only occurrence at 725, are written only
with ld\ but skyldr, written twice with Id, is written once with lld, at 89. Words
with Id developed more recently from Ið are usually written with Id: fiolda
826, duolduz 411, teldi 734, valdir 817, þoldi 952; but there is one occurrence of
lld: kualldr 949. Thus the distinction between the two /-phonemes before d
(Jakob Benediktsson 1960) is not represented consistently here.
ð is regularly written d, e.g. heidnum l3, sid l3, kuongadr l4, but þ occurs
in tiþenda 422. Finally in unstressed syllables the spelling is normally -t, whe-
ther for ð or í; there are only two instances of -th, ættuth l5, heidith l5. The oc-
currences with t are getnat 224, bunat 616 (hofut has been expanded according-
ly at 939, 1013); ætlot 522; thirteen instances of the present tense of verbs, e.g.
leggit 314, ættit 447, gatut 452; many instances of the neuter of the past parti-
ciple of verbs, e.g. verit l11, numit l18, and the neuter of adjectives, e.g. mikit
l28; nokcut, e.g. 268; þangat e.g. 33; and ten instances of the suffixed article,
e.g. rikit 435, landit 514.
The word at/ath is usually spelled at, but ath occurs 34 times. þat/þad is
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