Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series B - 01.06.1962, Blaðsíða 179
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§ 2. Flateyjarbók.
a) Vowels.
Some distinction is marked between long and short
vowels. The preposition á is written M 61 times, 220 etc.
but it occurs 6 times as sa without the accents, 723 etc.
and once as a 1924. The m symbol is once used in a form
of the dem. pron. þáá (acc. pl.) II20, but þa 1317 1733
1824, (acc. fem. sing.) 1231. mæ is written once, 2418, but
ma three times, 521 1630 1 824. On one occasion the ad-
verb is written þM 2521.
The development vá > vo is complete, e.g. kuongadiztt
215, huortt 228 2533, von 927, huorvm 2525, vorr 2616. Old
svá is written svo 1426 etc., suo 1523 etc.
Forms of the verb gera are usually written with -io-
spellings, giora 312 etc., giorer 2032, cf. also giorfiligazttur
38, but two -e- spellings are recorded, gera 818 1527.
All forms of hverr are written with e, e.g. hverr 517,
huernn 1331, hverr (fem.) 1330, hverium 1629, hueria 2525.
ve is also preserved in kuelld 2529, hversv 423, hvertt 823 etc.
The development é > ce after v is illustrated in vœr 2127
etc. (cf. Bandle 53).
Before -ng-, -ei- is always written for older -e-, e.g.
geingur 310, leingztt 731, streing 1420.
Before -gi- or -gj-, -ei- is regularly written instead of
older e.g.fleigin l18, seiger 517, meigi 42S,feigen 2528,
but note seger 1214 1231. The development e > ei has not
been adopted by analogy into forms of these words
where g is followed by another letter than i or j or where
g ends the word, e.g. megvm 1930, mega 2729, seg 926.
There are many instances of the development é > ie but
it is not consistently shown in the spelling. -ie- forms
are the commoner, e.g. ried l12, fie 314, liekvmztt 526,
sie 625, hier 633, þier 714 etc. but examples with -e- are
found, e.g. fretta 915, se 1028, letti 1417, kne 2124,/e 2321.
-ier is often represented by i with following -er symbol,
e.g. þier 2826.