Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series B - 01.06.1962, Síða 175
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u is the regular vowel in endings. o only occurs four
times, onguo 186 and 1912, m° 1210 and e° ll5. The last
two have been expanded messu and eru in the edition.
o in onguo is purely graphic, to prevent two m’s from
standing next to each other and giving rise to confusion.
b) Consonants.
(i) Single and double consonants.
Single d is written in studi 2410.
Single g is written for gg between vowels in ligur 912,
hygia 1014, legia 3014, skuga 3613, hogua 378.
For kk the commonest spelling is ck, e.g. feck 22,
nockud 55, ockar 258, kluckur 2916. Occasionally there
is just a single k, e.g. usually in forms of þykkja,
þiker 102 (but þicker 1314), nokru 165, dagdrykiu 17u. ck
is occasionally written for older single k, e.g. sterckur
32, lucktur 813.
Single / is found for ll in fel 175. / before original d
is almost always written //, e.g. skylldu l8, Haralldur
l1, helldur 57, villda 10°, kuolldz 812. There is one excep-
tion, kuoldit 106, where the word is divided by a line-
shift kuo | Idit. Single / is kept before d<ð, skildust 79,
skildi 245, 255. / is also almost always doubled before t,
e.g. mcellti 43, mœlltist 273 (there is one example of
mœlti 107). The verbs mœla and skulu generally appear
in abbreviated forms and in the edition these are always
expanded with // before d or t. For // in jarll, karll see
p. clxxv.
Single m is found in snema ll7.
Sometimes single n is written for nn, e.g. en 44, komin
615, kyne 139, halin 144. Often a stroke is placed
above a vowel where a following nn would be expected,
e.g. en 610 etc., rendi 125 etc. and morgunen 1711. This
stroke has, however, been expanded in the edition as a
single n.
More frequently nn is written for n, e.g. messann 42,
lidinn (nott) 612, bornn 48, Biornn 83, nottinn 2111.