Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series B - 01.10.1960, Blaðsíða 39

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and occasionally elsewhere, as in sik 704. Weakening
to g is usual in such words as sig 52, 129, 1210, miog
16°, 2315, 47°, mig 2018, 537, þig 505, 53«.
t. Final t in unstressed syllables and words commonly
remains, as in heitit 31, at 34, 35 (2x), hafit 35, klædit
414, 415, ersit 415, sofit 52, getit 373. However, weakening
to ð, spelt d, is not uncommon, both in words where
the preceding syllable ends in t and elsewhere: so,
for example, in kvlltid 54, skotid 55, þionad 99, etlad
133, litid 145, 376, portid 201, etid 207, 243, nockvd 343.
The common ending of the 2. pl. pres. ind. and the
imp. is t, as, for example, spazeret 1315, stigit 142,
hafit 1518, slait 161, orlofit 173, letit 624, veitit 659,
though there are occasional examples of d, as in litid
1711.
The scribe frequently simplifies medial or final
double consonants, as in ligia 1714, hygit 2016, hognir
265, ligr 267, Kolr 179, gvls 494, snema 695, henar 57,
224, 228, anar 58, kenir 1414, <H}ERa 705, þesvm 712,
skiot 96, þot 165, dotvr 2115, setir 2310. More striking,
however, is his tendency to write single consonants
double. Doubled t is written in full, as in att hofnn
1410, veitt 1511, sittia 27°, dættrvm 712 etc. Other
doubled consonants are occasionally written in full,
as in enddvdvm 479, oggr- 51°, duergganna 629 -10,
kongga 711, hyllr 138, tallandi 6312, but more frequently
the manuscript has a single consonant with a stroke
or dot over it, or, in the case of m, over the preceding
vowel. This is always so where the present edition
has mm, nn, as in samma 156, nemma 172, ammor 2014,
geymma 443, sunn 156 etc., and often where the edi-
tion has other doubled consonants, as in grippr 137,
loppt 177, vegg 1313, avgga 1616, hefdagg 226, nætrr 277
etc. Doubled r in the text is often due to the use of
an abbreviation symbol containing r + a (super-
fluous) r on the line: so, vorra 131, farra 144, likarra