Birgit wrote:

>>Codex Regius does not have OF, I have the photocopy of the page here at
>>home. It has "U" with a sign that indicates the "m", but that part is a

little

>>smudgy in the manuscript.
>>
>>Is Finnur trying to reconstruct an even older version, the way it was before
>>Codex Regius was written down?

Keth replied:

>Yes, it has been documented in many places that cod.reg. used
>um. Why Finnur uses "of" I do not know. Perhaps it is for
>stylistic reasons? Or maybe because he wants to keep a
>uniform style throughout?
>
>I have read somewhere that the frequency "of" of vs. "um"
>has been used to date ON poems. The basic idea is that
>the older a poem, the greater the frequency of "of"-s.

...or maybe it was just a scribal/typographic error?

-Selv

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