Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.10.2003, Blaðsíða 78

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between -r and -rr in the name Styrr, where the long consonant may be
expressed by <r) 26.82, or by (r) 24.74, or, rarely, by <rr> 26.83. ‘fyr’
occurs for fyrr 22.2, 26.2. r is lost after i in ‘fyriburð’ 35.9.
rl is, rarely, (11) ‘Þolleifr’ 38.78 (ct ‘Þorleifr’ 43.3), ‘kallar’ (= karlar)
42.86 (ct ‘karlar’ 42.94). r is lost before 5 in ‘gullbysta’ 25.38 (verse), but
retained in the rhyming word ‘fyrst’, same line; rs is retained also in ‘fors’
32.105, 106; rs in ‘sidarsta’ 26.51 and ‘siðarst’ 44.3 is probably analogical.
Standard ðs is written (z) in ‘nauzyn’ 21.15, 33.18, ct ‘naudzyn’ 31.76,
‘nauðzyn’ 31.78; in ‘trauz’ 24.32 (z> represents sts. For other uses of <z>
see Morphology.
Lenition That final t had become ð in weakly stressed words is apparent
from the spelling ‘uið’ (= pronoun vit) 24.70, 36.74. The perfect participle
of sjá is spelt with <ð>, as ‘seð’ 38.72, 41.37, 46.12 (supines). at is ‘at’ (x
ca 1000), but the weakening of the final consonant is revealed in the single,
exceptional, occurrence of ‘að’ which occurs in the phrase ‘Gunnar að
Hliðar enda’ 40.18. On the four occasions when it is spelt in full, hvat has
<t> 35.78, 36.75, 42.9, 49.41; þat appears with <t> when spelt in full (x 11);
kvað, though spelt with <ð> at 25.33, 34.84, 47.40 (all), is more often
written with the inverse spelling <t>, ‘kuat’ 19.6 - 50.37 (x 10) or ‘quat’
24.47 (sole). við (preposition) is nearly always ‘uið’ when not abbreviated,
but the inverse form occurs once ‘Uit’ 40.53; the word is usually abbre-
viated (and has been expanded with ‘ð’). The past tense of biðja (i e bað) is
spelt ‘bað’ 19.24-47.30 (x 30); consequently ‘bp is expanded ‘bad’ 19.2.
‘þucrút’ shows inverse <t) 24.61.
Though the great majority of personal pronouns traditionally ending in
<k>, together with the adverb mjgk, are spelt with <k), ‘mik’ 21.27 (verse) -
49.46 (x 21), ‘sik’ 24.29-32.120 (x 14), ‘þik’ 24.72-47.23 (x 19), ‘miok’
24.27 - 33.27 (x 21), the shift to a voiced consonant becomes apparent,
however, through occasional use of <g> ‘miog’ 40.7 - 48.67 (x 5). Inverse
<ik> for ig occurs in ‘þannik’ 41.81, ct ‘þan/ng’ 24.74 - 49.39 (x 12); this
word also occurs as ‘þö/znðg’ 41.88. ‘þitt’ (dual) occurs 27.60.
Unstressed syllables Again, it is largely only by inverse spellings that the
change of -t to -ð is evident. The spelling is nearly always <at>, <it> or <ut)
whether the classical form ended in t or ð; original t may appear as (t), as
‘farit’ 19.8 (neuter perfect participle); but <t> for earlier ð is very frequent,
as ‘snuit’ 19.14, ‘amælit’ 32.74, ‘skn/ot’ 40.51 (and many other second
person plural forms), ‘iorðut’ 41.146, ‘fðstut’ 42.30 (feminine participles),
‘hofut’/‘haufut’ 19.24, 25.72, 80, ‘hundrut’ 44.9, 16 (ct <ð> in non-final
position, as ‘hofuðit’ 25.71, ‘hundruðum’ 49.15). <að>: ‘manmafnað’
32.53, ‘kastað’ 35.57, ‘hattað’ 41.130 (all); <at>: ‘uanleitat’ 19.14 -
‘hingat’ 49.48 (x ca 95); <ið>: Titið’ 26.18 (sole) (ct ‘litit’ 33.30, 34.123);
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