Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.10.2003, Blaðsíða 112

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M (.AM 445 b 4tó) - Hand iii
Abbreviations
General Suspension, employed commonly for names, is indicated by a
following point, generally together with a preceding one. But sometimes
parts of words are suspended without marking, as ‘f(irir)’ 38.4, ‘s(ynir)’
(written ‘ss’) 38.7, ‘s(kerinv)’ 38.10, ‘sker(it)’ 38.16. A superscript curl is
common when abbreviating frequently-used words, as ‘h?’: 'hanrí 38.20,
‘þ?’: ‘þaí’ 38.15. A superscript dot is used to lengthen consonants e g ‘gekk'
41.29. A special case of this practice is found a few times with (d), where
the result comes to resemble <ð) ‘Þarodúír’ ('Þoroðr’?) 41.3, ‘rædífi’ 42.37.
Particular Superscript letters (one example of each): (a>: ‘va’ ‘sva’
38.41, <c>: ‘ik’ ‘þ/Jfc’ 42.90, <e>: ‘re’ ‘drepa’ 38.20, C): ‘ir’ ‘f/rdi<n)ga’ 42.3,
also ‘ri’ ‘vfr/dr’ 41.35, <°>: ‘ro’ ‘skobrodunvm’ 38.34, also ‘or’ ‘for’ 38.81,
and ‘orv’ ‘forv’ 39.1, <r>: ‘ar’ ‘Marr’ 41.20, <‘>: ‘it’ ‘tek/í’ 42.75, <v>: ‘rv’
‘brvn’ 42.44.
Traditional superscript abbreviation signs: those for ‘ra’ <w> resembling
<u> with tail extending to right ‘bra’ 38.22 (also used at times for ‘ar’
‘rettara’ 38.81); for ‘er’/‘ir’ <» ‘þcrri’ 41.20, ‘latn/r’ 38.48; for ‘vr’ <~>
like insular <a> with tail curling up and back, sometimes closing the loop so
as to make <“>, ‘systvr’ 41.5, also used for ‘rv’ ‘kynstrvm’ 42.83 (c/
confusion of ‘ra’/‘ar’ above); also the ‘nasal stroke’, sometimes little
bigger than a dot ‘vm’ 42.88 (twice), ‘fangs’ 41.21.
Abbreviated words (one example of each) ‘f’: ‘f/r/r’ 38.24, ‘h?’: ‘hann’
38.21, ‘ma’: ‘manna’ 40.6, ‘m1’: ‘manni' 38.79, ‘mm’: ‘mavnnvm' 38.9,
‘m11’: ‘menn’ 42.61, ‘mr’: ‘madr' 42.176, ‘mz’: ‘mannz’ 42.72, ‘mz’
(without median bar across <z»: ‘med’ 42.43 (sole), ‘t1’: ‘t//’ 38.18, ‘t°’:
‘tok’ 42.63, ‘u1’: ‘uif 38.15, ‘v1’: ‘v/í’ 38.34 (so expanded since it occurs
thus twice in full), ‘þ1’: ‘þv/’ 38.18, ‘þ?’: ‘þaí’ 38.30, ‘þ7’: ‘Þor-’, ‘Þor-
bcrgr’ 38.4; ok is regularly spelt ‘oc’.
2. ORTHOGRAPHY
Vowels <aa) is generally used for á when it represents a word or morpheme
(but <a> 38.10, 51) ‘aa’ 38.14 - 48.1 (x ca 83); it occurs occasionally
elsewhere Taa’ 38.40- ‘maal’ 38.40- ‘aarsalinn’ 42.36- ‘Þambaar’ 47.10 (x
23). <aa> is used for a in ‘aat’ 42.47; probably the scribe started the pre-
position as á, but changed it in scribendo to at.
<ie> does not occur for OI é but é is occasionally written <ei> ‘leitta’
42.93, ‘reitti’ 47.26, Teit’ 47.27, and ‘feikk’ 45.12 (reflecting fékk rather
Úidinfekk) (all). vé has become væ in the pronoun ‘uær’/‘vær’ 38.56 - 45.36
(x 10).