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CXXVIII
The spelling o for u (v) in final position occurs only fourteen times, e.g.
Efvo 914, huerso (five times) 142. Abbreviations such as e° are expanded with
-v, e.g. erv 95, vorv 917.
When written out the pronouns and the adverb mióg are invariably spelled
with g, not k: sig 92, eg 945, ofmiog 954 etc. Abbreviated forms, including og,
are expanded accordingly. In contrast with this, a variety of spellings are used
for the old t in particles, pronouns and endings. Thus at is usually spelled ath,
91 etc., but at occurs some 30 times, mostly at the line-end, 920 etc., or in the
abbreviated þv/at, 984; ad occurs only once, 1045, and there it is altered from
af. Þath is almost always abbreviated, but otherwise is spelled with th, e.g.
1068. When written out the preposition vid is more often spelled with d than
with t (11:4); hid and þid, both rare, are spelled only with d\ the pronoun vid
is always abbreviated. Both huat and huad occur, e.g. 1031, 197; the abbrevi-
ated form has been expanded with d. In endings t is more common than d, but
both are frequent, e.g. annat 98, kastat 934, legit 938; annad 952, launad 1035,
látid 984. In the suffixed article t is usual, d rare, e.g. mannkynit 921, husid 1144.
In endings and in the suffixed article the old distinction of in and inn is well
observed, e.g. rekin 917, tilbrogdin 971; stiginn 955, fiandinn 916; it is rare for
the abbreviation for the second n to be omitted, e.g. handtekin 20106. Similar-
ly with an and ann. In nouns such as gaman ll62, and in adverbs, hvadan 94,
sidan 916 etc., an (usually abbreviated, with superscript n) is the only spelling,
i.e. there are no inverted spellings. There is only one occurrence of the defi-
nite article, tungan 20146. In the masculine accusative singular of adjectives,
where n had developed to nn, the spelling ann is twice as frequent as an, e.g.
daudann 92, fullann 922; beztan 1020. It is possible that the maintenance of the
distinction of n and nn points to the West as the area in which the manuscript
originated; cf. Jón Helgason 1970.
The word kier (abbreviated kier) 1350 is the only instance of such a spell-
ing; there are three instances of ker, and many of kemur, kenna, gefa etc.
The spelling rr, usually expressed by r with a dot above it, or by a com-
bination of an er-abbreviation with an r on the line, is common at the ends of
words after stressed vowels, in accordance with origin or not, e.g. hverr 96 (13
instances; single r once), herr 103 (accusative or dative, 14 instances), fiárr
1059 (but fiárhlutr three times), færr (verb) 1519. The spelling þinnarr 12" is
exceptional; annarr occurs once, 1222, but annar five times. The spelling oc-
curs in fuss 1119, blæss 1344, etc. It is invariable in the frequent oss and þess. It
is also found occasionally in unstressed syllables: rikiss 105 (five instances),
annass 1951, heimleidiss 20l34.
The letter z is used in many positions, with varying significance. Where t or
ð originally stood before x followed by another consonant, e.g. bezta 1020,
gudhræzla 1061, but also spelled with dz, e.g. gædzkv 949. Before t in the mid-