Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.10.2003, Blaðsíða 100

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M (AM 445 b 4to) - Hand i
<ij> is the regular spelling for í ‘vijsadi’ 4.3 - ‘Astdijsar’ 26.19 (x 70),
though it is replaced by <j> alone in initial position, including, usually, the
preposition/adverb í, ‘j’ 4.9 - 26.16 (also x 70). Most exceptions, where a
single <i> is used, are, as with <a> and <e>, cases where it is a final vowel in
a stressed syllable as in ‘þvi’ 4.19 - 26.6 (x 10), ‘i’ 4.6, 17.109 (all), ‘tvi’
4.27, ‘svivirding’ 26.7, ‘suivirdingar’ 26.8. Non-final occurrences of
single <i> for í are ‘sin’ 17.19, ‘slikan’ 17.44, ‘viss’ 17.59, ‘olifiss’ 17.79,
‘vist’ 17.87, ‘likligt’ 17.96, ‘mina’ 17.200, ‘litt’ 17.211, ‘minvm’ 17.239,
‘sinvm’ 24.25, ‘Astdis-’ 26.9, 11 (all), ‘sinv’ 26.18.
Distinction between the originally long and short vowels is less clear in
the case of o. <ó> occurs only in ‘Þór’ 4.1, <oo> only in ‘stoodhrass’ 17.5,
<óó> occurs in ‘blóóti’ 4.1 - ‘hóógvær/-’ 17.248 (x 5), and <œ> in ‘dóoma’
4.39 - ‘mó5t’ 26.12 (x 11), while single <o> is used for the long vowel some
70 times ‘<Þ>orolfr’ 4.1 - ‘mot’ 4.26 - ‘þotti’ 26.20. Single <o> is usual in
the diphthongyó ‘bio’ 4.4 - ‘tioa’ 26.19 (x 30 including four cases of ‘siolf-’,
see pp. 83, 86), and in the negating prefix ó ‘olifiss’ 17.79, ‘ohol’ 17.106
(verse, c/below, p. 87) (all).
There is no distinction between y and ý (c/‘snyrr’ 17.61, ‘gny’ 17.156
(verse)).
au is usually spelt <au>/<av> Tauss’ 4.26 - ‘[skapRjavna’ 25.30 (x 54);
the ligatured form <a/> is also used ‘hla/ps’ 6.8 - ‘skapra/n’ 26.5 (x 4).
The front mutation of á (OI æ) is spelt <æ> ‘sættaz' 4.2 - ‘mællt’ 26.20 (x
56). Unlike the others, this M scribe does not use <é>. The front mutation of
ó (OI œ) also is spelt <æ> ‘austræna’ 5.9 - ‘stædiz’ 17.201 (x 47).
Diphthongization of æ, spelt <ie>, <iæ>, appears in ‘bie’ 4.21, 17.239,
‘bieanns’ 17.97 and ‘viær’ 17.30. Such spellings are relatively rare, but
have been found in a few fourteenth-century documents from the north of
Iceland and a few manuscripts which, in so far as they can be located at all,
also come from the north (Stefán Karlsson 1967, p. 24, § 36.9; J. Oresnik
1982). These spellings thus support the hypothesis that Pseudo-Vatnshyrna
originated in the north of Iceland (see above, p. 74*).
OI 0 (0,, front mutation of o) is spelt <e> ‘kemr’ 5.2, 25.50 (all). (But
17.254, in a not completely clear line of verse, has ‘kooer’ = k0mrl) OI 02
(labial mutation of e) is spelt <o>/<ö> ‘ðngu’ 4.35, ‘öngv’ 4.40, ‘ongva’ 5.6,
‘klockr’ 17.206, ‘stockva’ 17.206. There are no instances of <au>/<av>/<a/>
for 0.
For the labial mutation of a (OI q) <ð> is usual ‘hðfdv’ 4.6 - ‘svörvnvm’
26.20 (x 69); plain <o> is occasionally used ‘odrv/n’ 4.23 - ‘ollum’ 25.45 (x
11); the vowel is also spelt <au>/<av>/<a/> ‘kavn/zðdv’ 4.18 - ‘ha/fdv’ 5.5 -
‘Avrn’ 17.123 (x 18); such spellings, however, do not occur after chapter
17.