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Arts and Crafts: músika – sǫngr
Christian Liturgy: kanúkr – kórsbróðir, messa – guðsþjónusta, prestr – kennimaðr
Garments and Equipment: kápa – feldr, páll – reka
Grammatical Terminology: diphthongus – tvíhljóðr, praepositio – fyrirsetning
Humans and Human-like Creatures: jungfrú(-)/jómfrú(-) – mær/mey(j)-,
komp ánn – félagi
Medical Terminology: antidotum – mótgift/lækning, unguentum – smyrsl
Nature-related Terminology: oleum – viðsmjǫr, vipera – naðra
Physical States: krankr – sjúkr
Psychological States: amor – ást/elska (elskhugi), angist – ótti
Action: bítala, borga – gjalda, partera – skifta, prófa – freista/reyna
Cognitive Processes: forstanda/undirstanda – skilja, þenkja – hugsa
Figure 1  shows how word pairs, both types (grey) and tokens (black), are distrib-
uted in the eight genre groups in which the surveyed texts were categorized.9
Figure 1:  Word pairs: token and type frequencies.
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Offers, 23 Physical States, 24 Psychological States, 25 Qualities, 26 Quantity, 27 Re -
lationship, 28 Rhetorical and Poetic Terminology, 29 Seamanship, 30 Sins, 31 Time, 32
Travel, 33 Unexpected Events, 34 Values, 35 Vehicles, 36 War and State; verbs: 37 Action,
38 Change of State, 39 Cognitive Processes, 40 Indication, 41 Happenstance.
9 The graphs can be subject to minimal changes in the published version of the doctoral
dissertation (Tarsi [forthc.]) as a result of a revision of the data.
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