Brian

 

According to https://www.ordabok.is/index.asp the dative sg of leikur is leik so that would explain it. I guess, it must be what Gordon calls an i-stem noun, and so declines like staðr and bekkr (his examples), where the dative singular is the same as the accusative.

 

Alan

 

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GPH has <spáleik> rather than <spakleik>, but it seems clear
from other words in <spak-> and <spá-> that the two are
synonymous. However, I don’t understand why it isn’t dative
<spakleiki> to agree with <nökkurum>.