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B. After t, ð.
1. For the ending of the genitive in vitz 46', motz 740, yfir liz (= tz) 1 '5,
trauz (= stz) 218. There are no instances of -ts, but the genitive of words
in -ð is written with ds, gods 269, Guds 74 (nine instances), rads 728,
mids 912, brauds 978 etc.
2. In various words: veizlu (= tz) 526, veizsla 533, vizska (= tz) l18, blez-
ada 74, Lazarum 977, hræzlu (= ðz) 225, gæzsku (= ðz) 620. Note Þyska
821. Gisordz II20 is presumably written with z, but z and the r rotunda
which descends below the line are identical in shape, and the seven-
teenth-century copies have Gisordr A2, Gisordur A3, Gisudur (fourth
letter obscure) S47.
C. For the ending of the middle voice; there are no instances of zst (cf.
Blaisdell 1979b, xxxii, and others), or of zt. Examples: þrifaz l9, fanz
249, snyz 992, reidz ll86; and lez (= tst) 617, 822, the only occurrences of a
word with a stem ending in t.
D. In the ending of the superlative, which is always spelled with zst (=
st or tst), e.g. spakazsti l3’4, lein<g>zstum l7; bezstu l19, æzstu 531,
hellzsti 1029.
A few spellings or forms remain to be mentioned. bazstr with a occurs at
413; forms with e occur nine times, e.g. 1 '9. badi occurs four times (523, 76, 823,
948), bædi ten, e.g. 26. vordin occurs once, 962, but otherwise such words are
without v. þersi, abbreviated þersi, occurring five times (l26 , 216,20'39, 36), and
verstr (‘west’), abbreviated verstr, 54, are inverted spellings.
The conjunction eda is written out at 735, where it is the last word on the
page in the manuscript; the abbreviation has been expanded as e(da), l23 etc.
The preposition ór/úr is always spelled with o, e.g. 530 (seven instances).
The abbreviations in S6 have been described in detail in the four modern
editions referred to above. In this edition all abbreviations have been silently
expanded. The expansion of suspended words, where the suspension is indi-
cated in the manuscript by a dot (sometimes missing) or by a hook, has been
indicated by round brackets.
The end of a clause or sentence is usually marked in the manuscript by a
dot, and this punctuation has been retained. A full stop has been supplied
when it is missing, and capital letters have been supplied when needed in
names and at the beginning of sentences and chapter headings. A capital in the
manuscript at the beginning of direct speech has been retained (e.g. 26, 265),
but a capital has not been supplied in this position (e.g. 2U, 213), unless the
preceding expression is completed by svo or the like (e.g. 255).
Parts of the first and last pages, f. 62r and f. 69v, are extremely difficult to
read. The text offered for these parts in this edition is the outcome of repeated