Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.10.2003, Blaðsíða 140

118*
G(AM 309 4to)
Consonants in stressed syllables There is some fluctuation between single
and double consonants. Sometimes this is probably an unintentional result
of abbreviation e g ‘gerra’ 9.44, ‘frelsinngia’ 10.3. But there are a few
othercases e g ‘ati’ 1.4, ‘atri’ 1.25, ‘kuatt’ 17.31, ‘alltt’ 21.21, ‘mall’ (mál)
25.70, c/also ‘illla’ (sic) 24.44.
(c) occurs only in the combination <ck> ‘brccka’ 1.6 - ‘ecki’ 1.23 -
‘feck’ 2.21 - ‘þackade’ 26.74 (x 57) and in ‘com' 5.3, ‘Hacon’ 24.3.
The labial fricative is often spelt (f), intervocalically and after (l)/(r>
‘gefa’ 24.36, ‘golfi’ 3.27, ‘silfnr’ 3.28, ‘hurfu’ 2.15, ‘arf’ 25.47. In w-
stems, however, the spelling is predominantly with (u) ‘hioruir’, ‘fioru/’
18.31, ‘"hðgguin’ 17.56, ‘giorua’ 26.54, ‘yduorn’ 18.82, ‘ðngua’ 19.66,
‘Mauahlid-’ 19.44, ct miofe 16.12, ‘Mafhlideng-’ 17.18, 20, ‘Mafa hlid’
17.5, 52, 18.8, 149, hræfa 18.42, 132. The digraph (fu), frequent in W and
sometimes attributed to Norwegian influence (cf. p. 58*), does not occur.
hl is occasionally written (1) Tutinn’ 3.30 (perhaps not understood by the
copyist), ‘laupa’ 9.29, ‘lotid’ 9.53, Tiod’ 17.96, Tuto/-’ 24.31, possibly
Tut\um' 26.42 (all). Elsewhere hl is written with (h> ‘hliop’ 2.10 - ‘hl[u]tö’
27.19 (x 70); hr is once written without (h> ‘Ring’ 3.29, ct ‘hrmgnr’ 3.28 -
‘hrid’ 27.9 (x 48).
Lenition Pronouns ending, classically, in k always have (g) when spelt
out ‘eg’ 17.15 - 26.38 (x 16), ‘sig’ 1.11 - 25.94 (x 11). (No examples of
mik or þik.) Similarly ‘miog’ 3.15 (sole), ‘miðg’ 16.8-27.27 (x 8).
The word at is written both ‘at’ and ‘ad’, the former being more common
early in the manuscript, the latter in the later part. The distribution is
striking. ‘at’ alone is used (x 64) until ‘mæli at’ 17.15 on f. 36ra. From the
next line ‘ad kueda’ 17.16 onwards ‘ad’ is predominantly used (x 230);
there are 24 further ‘at’s, which are interspersed among the ‘ad’s but never
more than two consecutively. þat is almost always abbreviated, but is spelt
‘þad’ 17.97, 19.2 (all). ‘Þat’ occurs once, as the first word of chapter 26.
<k> may represent kj ‘seka’ 21.41, ‘skickura’ 19.55, 56 (ct ‘skickiu’
19.48); apart from these possibly inverse spellings there is no explicit indi-
cation of palatalization of k nor g.
Loss of n between t and s is sometimes explicit e g ‘vaz’ 8.23, skickun/
‘uatz’ 21.29.
<pt) ‘aptuC 1.21 - ‘epter’ 27.29 (x 132) is preferred to <ft) ‘sialft' 4.5 -
‘þyrfti’ 25.85 (x 14). The place-name Alptafjgrðr (and its derivative
Alptfirðingr) is spelt with both <ft) (x 5) and <pt> (x 2), and the past tense of
the verb þurfa is spelt with <ft) 25.85 and with <pt) 25.77, 27.27. Neuter
sing. of hálfr is spelt once with <ft> (17.2) and once with <pt> (24.6).
r is lost before 5 in ‘þost(eins)’ 16.15.
rl is written <11) in parts of jarl- ‘jallen’ 1.7 - ‘jall’ 27.4 (x 4) (except