Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.10.2003, Blaðsíða 98

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M (AM 445 b 4to) - Hand i
Ligatures and modified letters <aa>, frequently; <œ>, occasionally - thrice
in 17.215; <æ>, with tail and no top storey, frequently; <a/> rarely: ‘ha/fdv’
5.5, ‘hla/ps’ 6.8, ‘þa/’ 8.4, ‘hla/pa’ 17.231, ‘skapra/n’ 26.5 (all). For<st>and
<vv>, see above. <ö> is common.
Accents The acute accent is rare; <co> and <óó> occur occasionally, <á>
once ‘sijdán’ 4.18. <i> frequently has a long oblique stroke above, distin-
guishing it from similar letters. (This stroke is not transcribed.)
Capitals are sometimes employed to begin names or sentences and are
often distinguished by a dot placed within a loop; <j> is often so
distinguished from <i>. (This letter could therefore conceivably have been
transcribed ‘I’, but the traditional ‘J’ has been preferred.)
Small majuscules In initial position only and not indicating gemination,
<r> is used ‘Riedvz’ 4.5 - ‘Raadvm’ 25.23 - ‘R[ad’ 25.42 (x 56).
The scribe of Hand i uses an identical graph (r rotunda with a stroke
through it) for the combinations rr and rum, which are consequently open
to editorial interpretation ‘Þorr’ 4.7 ~ ‘hvorvm' 4.15.
Abbreviations
General A following point, sometimes in conjunction with a preceding one,
marks suspension, as ‘s(yni)’ 17.118, ‘s(ynir)’ 17.123, ‘æ(dr)’ 4.2 (written
‘.s.’, ‘.ss.’ and ‘æ.’ respectively). A curl <?> may also be so used, as ‘Hall-
st(einn)’ 17.121. A superscript dot, lengthening a consonant, is rarely
employed, but ‘seMia’ 17.130. Contraction (i e where letters both prece-
ding and following the omission are present) may be indicated by a long
superscript bar, mostly in the case of common words, as ‘þe/r’ 4.9, Ta/zdid’
4.18, or brief omissions, as ‘or’ in ‘Borgar’ 6.4. The bar and curl are not
always distinguishable. Occasionally the bar over the last letter of a word
to be written indicates a suspension, as ‘mik: ‘mik/d’) 4.4.
Particular Superscript letters (excluding the specific cases given under
‘Abbreviated words’, one example of each): <d>: (once only) ‘vd’ ‘hofvcf
25.36, <e>: ‘re’ ‘greidliga’ 4.8, <‘>: ‘ri’ ‘hr/ngr’ 4.26, <m>: ‘vm’ ‘eyivm’ 4.43,
<n>: ‘an’ ‘sæfangi’ 4.43, <°>: ‘or’ ‘hvorki’ 4.36, ‘ro’ ‘hross’ 17.6, ‘vo’ ‘svo’
4.37, also ‘oko’ and ‘oro’ ‘toko’ 17.83, ‘foro’ 17.81 (for full forms of tóku
and fóru see Orthography), ‘voro’ 17.88 (never written in full), <r>: ‘ar’
‘frcttor’ 4.1, <v>: ‘rv’ ‘trvliga’ 26.12, <æ>: ‘ræ’ ‘írændx' 4.38. Other super-
scripts: the traditional symbol for er/ir (('■), transcribed ‘ir’ in grammatical
endings since that is the scribe’s practice when they are written in full)
‘fcrdar’ 4.5, ‘fir/r’ 4.8, the symbol resembling Greek pi <*>, used for ‘ra’
‘froman’ 4.19, as well as for ‘ia’ ‘þigg/o’ 6.5, and for ‘va’ ‘ongvo’ 5.7, the
symbol for ‘ur’, like an insular <a> with a curling-up tail <~>, ‘vitvr’ 17.129,