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Linguistic and texual features
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‘jarli’ 1.7) and of karl- ‘husk[al]l’ 17.47 - ‘kallmadr' 17.63 - ‘huskolluw’
25.32 (x 7).
t is lost between s and / ‘Þorgeslin/ígwwí’ 23.8, ‘Þorgesliwga’ 25.50.
Unstressed syllables Counting only unabbreviated forms, -at is written
both (ad) ‘skipad’ 2.22 - ‘heriad’ 27.18 (x 16) and (at) ‘þo/ígat’ 4.3, 6,
9.64 (all), but the latter only in þangat. Similarly, but less sweepingly, -it is
written both (id> ‘m/Æid’ 2.12 - ‘uo/ád’ 27.29 (x 54) and (it) ‘lo/;dit’ 3.9 -
‘baadit’ 26.78 (x 16). C/also ‘nockud' 17.30, 33, 18.38 (all). (In expansions
‘d’ or ‘t’ is used according to the superscript letter of abbreviation.)
For OI final -r, both (r> and (ur> occur, in full and abbreviated forms.
Strictly, since letters may be written superscript even when no abbreviation
is intended, r rotunda might be read as ‘r’ equally with ‘ur’, though the lat-
ter is the more likely intention. Inverse spellings in kinship terms are fairly
frequent ‘faudr’ 6.6 - ‘modr’ 19.62 - ‘fodr’ 19.69 (x 6); ct ‘modur’ 17.57,
‘brodí/r’ 18.22, ‘modz/r’ 22.9 (all). The word maðr occurs once unabbrevi-
ated as ‘madur’ 25.6.
3. MORPHOLOGY
Nominal forms Dat. sing. ‘grofun/ze’ (def.) 25.31 shows an old form with -u;
nom. plur. ‘menmmer' (def.) 19.49 is an innovation, cf W 19, 17 (01 menninir).
Names and name-elements Names in -arr. Ottarr ‘Ottar' 7.7 (nom.),
Úlfarr ‘Ulfor’ 6.13 (nom.), Vestarr ‘Vesfor’ 6.15 (nom.). Names in -geirr:
Alfgeirr ‘Alfgeir’ 17.4, 18.68, 20.10 (all nom.), ‘Alf(g)eir’ 17.71, ‘Aflgeir’
20.3 (both acc.), Ásgeirr ‘Asgeir’ 6.18, 7.6 (both nom.), Finngeirr ‘Fin/zge-
ir’ 6.14 (nom.), Hallgeirr ‘Hallgeir’ 17.43 (nom.), Vilgeirr ‘ViÞ'geir’-7.10
(nom.), Þorgeirr ‘Þorgeir’ 9.19 (nom.). Már ‘Mar’ 25.97 (nom.). Styrr
‘Styrr’ 16.16 - 26.82 (x 14) (all nom.), 25.48 (acc.), 24.85, 26.2 (both dat.),
‘Styr’ 16.13 - 26.98 (x 11) (all nom.), 25.48 (acc.), 24.61 (dat.), ‘Styr’
24.84 (dat.). Names in -þórr: Steinþórr ‘Stei/zþor’ 25.62 (acc.), Þórr ‘Þor’
3.7 - 4.7 (x 6) (all nom.), 3.2 (acc.), 2.18 (dat.). In summary, rr has appa-
rently been shortened after a long vowel, while (r> and (rr> are used arbi-
trarily after a short vowel, irrespective of the case of the noun.
The dative of the name Arnkell does not occur unabbreviated; the form
‘Am(keli)’ has been used in view of the date of the manuscript (ca 1500).
Adjectival and adverbial forms The acc. fem. sing. definite article occurs
with the weak ending -u, ‘hi//u’ 16.9.
Superlatives In superlatives with the ending -st, (st> is the usual spelling
after a vowel or non-dental consonant: ‘flestu/?/’ 18.62 - ‘flesta’ 25.73 (x
4), ‘fyrst’ 2.3 - ‘fyrsta’ 6.8 - ‘fyrst’ 25.58 (x 11), ‘mestz/r’ 1.26 - ‘mest’
27.6 (x 17), ‘næst’ 9.61 - ‘næstuwz’ 9.62 - ‘næst’ 26.2 (x 5). When fol-