Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.10.2003, Blaðsíða 137

Linguistic and texual features
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‘ma?.hV: ‘Ma(fa) h(lidar)’ 19.3. Another general indication of abbreviation
is a long bar over the whole abbreviated word e g ‘nor’ with long bar above
terminating in an upper loop: ‘Nor(egi)’ 1.2, 9, 10, ‘kgr’ with bar: ‘kongr’
1.16; ‘fiolmcnnt’ 4.11 has a bar over <mt>. Consonant lengthening may be
indicated by a dot above the letter, which sometimes becomes a short, thick
slanting line e g ‘gott’ 4.11.
Particular A symbol like an elongated <c>, superscript, is used for vowel
plus following ‘k’/‘ck’ e g ‘tok’ 1.24, ‘geck' 2.3, ‘m/7riH’ 2.19, ‘fcc/:’ 3.2,
and also in words where OI k had become g, e g ‘nenneg’ 17.44. This sign
when expanded is transcribed according to the form preferred when the let-
ters are spelt out e g ‘feck’ 2.21, ‘mikill’ 10.3, ‘nocknr’ 18.28, ‘þikcr’
18.82, ‘trneg’ 18.147.
Superscript <d> and <‘> are expanded as vowel + ‘d’ and vowel + ‘t’ re-
spectively since both <d> and <t> forms occur when words are written in full
e g ‘skipuí/’ 3.31, ‘bolstM]’ 18.81, ‘kuar’ 1.15, ‘halld/r’ 2.24. These su-
perscripts are also used within words e g ‘u/ía’ 1.23, ‘hu//a’ 1.26, ‘n/cír’
17.54.
Other superscripts (single examples) <‘>: ‘ri’ ‘eyr/’ 6.13, also ‘iri’ ‘me/r/’
18.22; <m>: ‘um' ‘nockrnm uetrnm’ 6.7; <">: ‘ann’, ‘an’ (expanded accor-
ding to etymology) ‘mnnnligt’ 5.6, ‘sæfnngi’ 4.12, ‘jafnnn’ 1.18, also ‘na’
‘oiafnndar’ 8.19; <°>: ‘ro’ ‘frodaa’ 18.128, ‘gro’ 7.8, also ‘or’ ‘huorki’ 4.9;
<r>: ‘ar’ ‘heiptor’ 4.9; <~> (resembles r rotunda): ‘ur’ ‘brodnr’ 5.4, also ‘yr’
‘fyrst’ 7.2; <u>: ‘iu’ ‘fry/n’ 17.93, also ‘nu’ ‘tuninn’ 17.85, ‘ru’ ‘aatrnnad’
4.3, and ‘un’ ‘mnndi’ 4.6; <z>: vowel + ‘z’ (as appropriate to the syntax),
especially ‘kuaz’ 17.83.
In addition, the scribe uses the traditional special symbols, e g for er/ir
‘sicr’ 4.11, used also for ‘eir’ in the names ‘Alfgeir' 17.75, ‘Ge/rridnr’
17.98, for ‘is(s)’ ‘olif/v’ 17.75 (the same sign is used superscript for ‘s’ in
‘þorarens' 17.48 and ‘godí’ 17.97), for ‘ra’ ‘fra’ 5.2, for ‘us’ ‘uigfns’ 7.10.
He also uses, with high frequency, the ‘nasal stroke’ indicating the omis-
sion of following <m> or <n> e g ‘tortiwa’ (‘tortina’?) 4.4, ‘stendr’ 4.3;
sometimes this bar is preceded by a slight downward curve.
Abbreviations of common words (single examples) ‘e1’: ‘e/gi’ 4.9, ‘e1-’:
‘er’ 4.10, ‘P’: ‘fara’ 18.3, ‘f°’: ‘forn’ 9.32, ‘V’: ‘fyr’ 5.3, ‘ti’: ‘hann’ 4.3,
‘bs’: ‘hans’ 5.4, ‘tiar’: ‘hennar’ 19.19, ‘mr’: ‘madr' 4.10, ‘ma’: ‘manna'
6.11, ‘mm’: ‘monnnm’ 4.5, ‘md’: ‘med' 6.3, ‘m1’: ‘-menni’ 8.10, ‘mli’:
‘mæ/líi’ 3.11, ‘f’: ‘t//’ 6.8, ‘u1’: ‘uid’ 6.11, ‘v°’ ‘vorn’ 7.9, ‘þ’: ‘þad’ 8.12,
also ‘þor-’ 9.10, ‘þ’: ‘þe/n?’ 5.7, ‘þ1’: ‘þn/’ 4.3, ‘þra’: ‘þe/ra’ 1.5. Many
frequently occurring words are contracted, by means of the ‘long bar’, and
are not listed here, e g ‘hann’, ‘hcnni’. In konungr and its grammatical
forms, the expanded spelling is what would be expected for the manu-