Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.10.2003, Blaðsíða 142

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G (AM 309 4to)
lowing a “latent dental”, the exponent is written <zt) ‘bezti’ 17.62, ‘bezta’
26.52, ‘beztí’ 24.65; also ‘bestz’ 25.55 and ‘hellz’ 25.37 (all). In superla-
tives with the ending -ast/-ust the exponent is almost always written <z)
when in word-final position ‘uinveVttuz’ 20.2, but also occasionally in
word-medial position after a vowel ‘hardaza’ 9.26, ‘oduzu’ 9.29, ‘skiotazr’
17.67 ct ‘göfgaztur' 2.20, ‘likligaztw/-’ 9.40, ‘fusaztwr’ 20.10.
Verbal forms Verbs usually have classical forms: (first sing. of verd) ‘em
eg’ 26.43; (first sing. pres. subj.) ‘þotí eg tak&’ 18.118-19; (first sing. past
ind.) ‘Varda eg’ (verse) 17.90; (first sing. past subj.) ‘[ad] eg skyllda’
25.50. The following, however, also occur: (first sing. pres. ind.) ‘eg er’
25.64; (first sing. pres. subj.) ‘ad eg taki’ 25.66; (first plur. pres. subj.) ‘ad
uier sitium’ 18.121, ‘ad uid forum’ 24.43; (first plur. past subj.) ‘ad uid
legduw’ 24.67.
Medio-passive The prevailing form of the medio-passive exponent in G
is <z)‘taldiz’ 1.15 -‘sez’ 18.27 - ’fannz’ 17.52 -‘gcrdiz’27.29 (x 52). Al-
ternatives are <zt) ‘and[a]dezt’ 7.1 - ‘sæzt’ 27.6 (x 5), and <st) ‘leikst’ 20.9
(sole). ‘eg gerumzt’ 18.116 is the only first person sing. instance. ‘toks’ ap-
pears to be the medio-passive form at 26.96, though see textual note. There
is no observable pattern.
The analogical forms ‘sau’/‘saau’ sometimes occur for third past plur. of
sjá 17.80 - 25.30 (x 8); ct however ‘sa’ 3.9 - 17.26 (x 5). Other analogical
forms are ‘uorden’ 18.150 (ct ‘ordinw’ 1.22, 9.35) and ‘uolldit’ 19.64.
4. INDIVIDUAL WORD FORMS
‘alldrigi’ 9.45, ‘alldregi’ 24.74.
‘buand-’ is the only form for instances of bóndi.
The following occur ‘aa braut’ 9.32, ‘æ brwtt’ 2.5, 3.3, 19.16, 43, ‘j brwtt’
4.5, 19.28, ‘bwrt’ 21.19, ‘ai bwrt’ 21.18-19, 25.86 (all).
dyrr has y throughout the declension ‘dyr’ 3.24 - ‘dyrvm’ 17.88 - ‘dyr-
unww2’ 26.81 (x 13).
‘eda’ is the usual form 1.11, 20.6, 24.83, 27.17 (all), sometimes abbrevi-
ated ‘ea’ or ‘e’ + curl; ‘edr’/‘edur’ does not occur.
The negation ei appears only in verse ‘ei’ 18.72, 130, 21.20, 26.59 (all).
The preposition fyrir does not occur spelt out; it is expanded ‘firer’.
‘hid’ 17.80, 18.49, 22.7, 24.16 (all) is more common than ‘ed’ 17.2 (sole)
or ‘hit’ 2.7, 8.9 (all).
‘huadki’ 19.36 (sole).
‘jhullt’ 17.24, elsewhere ‘hollt-’ 6.5 - 19.49 (x 6).