Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series B - 01.10.1960, Blaðsíða 35

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skytr 47. The abbreviation for early inflexional -r is
therefore expanded -r, even though this may be
thought to introduce an archaistic featnre into the
text. For similar reasons the abbreviation 2 for old
inflexional -r is expanded -r in B, C, AM. 585c, 4°.
In the same way i superscript and o snperscript for
the -i/-e and -u\-o endings are given as -e and -u in
the text quoted from AM. 585c, 4°: examples are
haf (hafde) 2414, alld1 (alldre) 2614, Rumj° (rumjnu)
2421. -e and -u are the common forms in this manu-
script, though there are such occasional exceptions
as herbergi 2416, fyrri 2512, villdi 3211, huerso 2910,
komo 3116. The scribe of AM. 585c, 4° uses three
spellings of the word svá. The most common is so,
but sua, suo are not infrequent. There are, moreover,
certain abbreviated forms of the word where the
abbreviation symbol suggests either sua (3110 (2x),
3211, 3221, 3615, for example) or suo (2918, 7723). These
abbreviated forms are expanded so since the scribe
uses that form more commonly than the others when
writing the word in full. Here the method of expan-
sion leads virtually to the arbitrary preference of one
form to the others, since the predominance of so over
sua, suo forms in this text is probably not statistically
significant.
(e) Different forms of the same letter are not distin-
guished. To take two examples. The small capital R
is used occasionally in both A and B as an initial
consonant: examples are Ridr 1816, Renr 1819, im(dj
8510 and commonly in abbreviated forms of the words
riki, ridarri, Rida 911, Ridit 913. B sometimes uses r
as the first consonant of the second element of a
compound, as in atReid 9522, blodRms 96°, while in
the A form þesaRr lö6 n may represent rr. In all
tliese cases the present edition replaces the capital
by r. A evidences the long s form initially, medially
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