Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.10.2003, Blaðsíða 83

Linguistic and textual features
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Classical gneypt appears as ‘gneipt’ 38.104, as also in M; ‘gneypr’/
‘gneipr’ seem to be forms of equal authority.39
graðungr/griðungr appears with the -a- form 48.42, 62 etc. (Aa, Ak use
only Aj and Z use both.) Kjartan G. Ottósson remarks that he is unable
to explain why the a in graðungr escapes labial mutation.40
‘huarratueggiu’ 39.11, 13.
‘kuelld-’ (rather than ‘kuölld-’) 19.8 - 47.27 (x 31).
‘mala leitun’ 26.21.
npkkurr The following forms occur (frequency added in parentheses
where occurring more than twice, abbreviated forms silently expanded):
nom. sing. masc. ‘nokkuR’/‘nokkuR’ 26.19 - 49.56 (x 5); neut. ‘nakkuat’
24.21 -47.5 (x 3), ‘nokkut’ 34.58, 49.34 (all); acc. sing. masc. ‘nokkurn’
24.59; fem. ‘naukkura’ 47.22, ‘nokkura’ 38.45, 45.52; neut. ‘nakkuat’
32.74 - 47.5 (x 4), ‘nokknrt’ 26.3, ‘nokkut’ 29.32 (adverbial); gen. sing.
masc. ‘nokkurs’ 25.56, 41.71; fem. ‘nokkurrar’ 25.58; dat. sing. neut.
‘nokkuru’ 35.19, 47.6; nom. plur. masc. ‘nokknrir’ 30.24, 34.112; acc. plur.
neut. ‘nokkur’ 26.30 - 44.26 (x 3); acc. plur. masc. ‘nokkura’ 31.84; fem.
‘nokkurar’ 26.41, ‘nqkkurar’ 40.8; dat. plur. ‘nokkurum’ 33.14.
The negative prefix is written 45 times as a separate word ‘o taldr’ 39.22
- ‘o hræklig’ 41.20-21 - ‘u uigr’ 36.44 - ‘u uin/r’ 47.10; it is joined to its
head morpheme ‘ouina’ 25.75 - ‘onytum’ 36.12 - ‘uræntan’ 30.8 - ‘uhægt’
34.52 (x 84). In all it is written <o) 112 times (52 of which are in the name
Ospakr), <u) 17 times.
oxi/uxi nom. plur. is ‘yxn’ 31.40, 49 (both with masc. adjective or
numeral), (def.) ‘yxnirn/r’ 31.91, acc. plur. ‘yxn’ 31.88 (with masc.
numeral), 28.47, 32.87 (gender indeterminate), but ct acc. plur. ‘auxnina’
28.48 (masc.), as well as gen. plur. ‘Auxna (brekkur)’ 32.18, ‘Oxna
(brekkum)’ 38.72.41
u/y: <y> occurs for standard u in ‘þyrfa’ 29.37.
ú/ý the variant form ‘yr’ for úr appears at 25.22.
‘ual’ (adverb) 24.8 - 49.28 (x 33), but ‘Uel’ 24.74 - 40.52 (x 3).
‘þannig’ 24.74 - 49.39 (x 12), ‘þannik’ 41.81, ‘þanmn’ 42.14, ‘þí///nin//’
29.27, ‘þa/mðg’ 41.88.
Þór(s)nes when not followed by ‘þing-’ occurs, twice only, with -rs-
‘Þorsnes’ 38.4, ‘Þorsnesinga’ 50.41. Followed by ‘þing-’ it lacks medial s,
occurring 6 times with a second final (genitival) <s> ‘Þorness þ//7gs’ 21.39,
22.23, 27.72 (‘þ/7/g<s>’), 32.23, ‘Þorness þ/7/gi’ 44.66, ‘Þorness þingi’
19 C/Jón Þorkelsson 1913, p. 21.
40 Kjartan G. Ottósson 1992, p. 45, n. 6.
41 C/Hreinn Benediktsson 1986, p. 29 and, in particular, p. 61.