Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series B - 01.10.1965, Blaðsíða 31
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j'q is íq or io: hÍQrtur (5:19), fiolment (24:25).
æ is æ, q (once), or ei (once): lætur (4:33), mqr (6:25),
reidis (18:25)—but rcedis (58:22).
ce is æ: æptu (5:31); note rQdu (65:19; = rædu in A),
or is this contamination with rQdd?
au is au, w (once), or q (once): augum (4:30), Iwpara
(6:14), Qnkar (54:19; see below); note þiöttum (59:21; =
þrautum in A) with i a misreading of r rotunda, and also
þau (48:28).
ei is ei or ey: heidur (53:25), heydri (72:19), kurteysumm
(4:26; regularly so).
ey is ey or ei: geyma (20:26), geima (51:21).
Note, in addition, gÍQrdist (4:23), giorir (8:16), gera
(13:17), gersemar (56:25), and kemur (7:18), sefvur
(35:24). Normal for B is huor (4:31), huorsu (54:24),
etc., but huer (5:31, 7:21) and hversu (50:26) also occur.
vá is normally vo: vopn (6:22), voda (55:25), etc., except sva
(4:17; etc.)—but svo (40:20), varu (27:12)—voru (26:23),
huart (61:26)—but huort (13:26). Short vowels before ng:
langt (6:22), angrar (31:16)—but angrar (32:15), geingur
(49:28), feingu (16:27), köngur (3:10; etc.)—but kongur
(9:21), unga (4:25), þiingur (49:18), yngri (25:28), aungva
(48:26; see above)—the reverse is Qnkar (54:19) for aun-
kar. As negative prefix both ö- (7:27) and u- (15:22) occur.
Both or (69:16) and ur (65:28) occur, and note barönar
(71:21) and barunar (70:18). morgin (5:21) and morgun
(20:16) are both found; also natt (38:13) and nöttina
(35:24). Several isolated forms should also be mentioned:
sigir (42:27), tþku (72:22), sea (4:24)—but sia (4:30;
etc.). In the word jQtunn the majority of occurrences (8)
show q (44:23; etc.), two show o (45:23,27), and one o
(43:27; in the chapter title!), but the two remaining forms
show u (44:26,29). The interpolated chapter shows no
significant deviation from the preceding in its ortho-
graphic system.
Unaccented vowels are occasionally written double, but