Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.10.2003, Blaðsíða 54

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E (AM 162 Efol.)
scribe’s language. There are no examples of inverse spellings of classical
01 æ with graphs used for œ.
Specific combinations There are no examples of spelling the combi-
nation vá as ‘vo’; it occurs in ‘sva’ 41.26 - ‘vaðvcrk’ 41.41 - ‘varið’ 45.59
- ‘sva’ 47.6 (x 30, including the word ‘sva’ x 18). The diphthong <ei> may
occur, non-classically, before ng ‘geingr’ 45.18, ‘feign/r’ (sic - fengnir)
41.114 but eng is written ‘eng’ in ‘enga’ 41.19 - ‘fengo’ 41.118 - ‘engar’
45.73 (x 11).
The form ‘hðf/r’ occurs (for hefir) 41.82.
Unstressed syllables For the front vowel both <e> ‘alþinge’ 41.3 -
‘iBittrvne’ 47.6 (x 39) and <i> ‘ecki’ 40.1 - ‘villdi’ 47.12 (x ca 225) occur
in final position and also before final <r> ‘gerðer’ 41.5 - ‘hvrðer’ 46.15 (x
6), ‘allir’ 41.2 - ‘fyrir’ 47.8 (x 49). Since <i> is commoner in these positions,
it is used in the expansion of abbreviations. For the unstressed back vowel
both <o> ‘komo’ 41.1 - ‘mvndo’ 47.6 (x 94) and <v> ‘vrðv’ 41.8 - ‘la/gðv’
47.9 (x 85) occur; ‘-om’ never occurs but there do exist spellings in ‘-om’
‘sinow’ 41.8 - ‘kleðvno/n’ 41.103 - ‘sinom’ 46.11 (x 11); ‘-vm’ ‘vcrðvm’
41.33 - ‘kleðvm' 46.16 (x 7) also ‘-vm’ ‘mðrgvm’ 41.6 - ‘hðndv/n’ 46.18
(x 37). ‘-or’ appears twice, ‘blegior’ 41.35 and ‘bleior’ 41.113, ‘vr’ once
‘skorðvr’ 41.83 (plus ‘Gízvr’ 41.1). There is no example of development of
a svarabhakti vowel.
Consonants Short and long (geminated) consonants are not always
distinguished e g ‘þocki’ 41.83 (þoki); ‘iÞarralatrs f(irði)’ 45.65. ‘tt’ in
particular is used very freely e g ‘heitt’ 41.6, ‘vettra’ 41.51, ‘veitt’ 45.2, 3,
‘hvatt’ 45.4, ‘ivvitt’ 45.13 (í úvit). (‘Bittro’ 46.1, 8 and ‘seckia’ 45.60 may
however reflect phonetic realities.)
<d> is not used for the dental fricative, for which only <ð> or <þ> occur;
initially only <þ> is found.
-kð-\ second consonant appears as a fricative in nominal forms ‘sekðar’
46.3, ‘vspekþir’ 45.65, ‘vspekð’ 46.4. «þ> and <ð> do not of course
distinguish voiceless and voiced phonemes.8)
-pð-: second consonant appears as a plosive in past tense of the verb
kippa ‘kipto’ 45.14.
‘ —gi— ’ is used to express / in ‘blegior’ 41.35, an inverted spelling, ct
‘bleior’ 41.113.
Initial h before consonant: <h> absent Tiota’ 41.97, Tiop’ 45.22, 46.17
(twice), 47.1, ‘liopv’ 45.9, 11, 46.8, 46.14, ‘liopvz’ 45.51, Tvt’ 47.10 (all);
‘Ra/ni’ 41.5, ‘rifvnne’ 41.69, ‘rið’ 41.88, ‘Rafn’ 45.66, 68 (all); <h> present
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C/Hreinn Benediktsson 1965, p. 73.