Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series B - 01.10.1968, Síða 106

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tion by mag. art. Agnete Loth and will appear in
Editiones Arnamagnæanæ, series A. Since it would be
most natural to treat the palæography, orthography
and linguistic forms of this scribe on the basis of all
his MSS, only a few features will be mentioned here.
Both the fragments in 667 V and XI and Perg.
fol. 3 are written in two columns, perhaps in imita-
tion of the Low German Passionael editions which
were printed in this way.
In the fragments in 667 V and XI the cross-stroke
in practically all the ogr-symbols and often in final t’s
ends in a curl. A similar curl occurs frequently as a
continuation of a final r-rotunda.
Minuscule r, which is used almost as frequently
as r-rotunda, is often adorned with a thin curved
stroke, beginning at the left above the r and then
going vertically down through the arm of the r
and concluding below the line.
th often appears for t initially, medially and finally,
e.g. D 38 thima, 4 lithels, 99 eith, while th is only
used very occasionally by other scribes in the 15th
and 16th centuries. Less frequently, and apparently
only finally, gh appears for g and dh for d, cf. e.g.
D 21 havgh, 26 egh and on the other leaves: kostvlegh,
miogh and medh, bravdh. These spellings may repre-
sent an imitation of the orthography of the Pas-
sionael, where th for t and gh for g occur frequently,
although no instance of dh for d has been noted.
The scribe may alternatively have been influenced
by contemporary Danish and Norwegian ortho-
graphy, where th, gh and dh for t, g and d are ex-
tremely common (cf. pp. cv f. and cxi).
Ole Widding and Hans Bekker-Nielsen have
expressed the opinion in two papers (see p. cii, note 3)
that Oddur Gottskálksson (c. 1515-56) was the scribe
of Perg. fol. 3. This identification cannot, however,