At 5:59:47 PM on Tuesday, December 26, 2006, tgpedersen
wrote:
[...]
> Old Norse (ie. Old Icelandic) palatalized to gy-, ky-.
According to Haugen, written evidence for this velar
palatalization (e.g., spellings like <giera> for <gera>)
first shows up in OIc and ONorw mss. around 1250, and
perhaps a little later in OEScand.
Brian