> > Actually that's a very natural phonetic development and one
> > that did indeed take place in at least some dialects of ON.
> > For example what we have in standardized Old Icelandic as 'draumr'
> > occurs in Old Swedish as 'draumbr'.
>
> No, Swedish had lost the au-diphtong before Old Swedish time,
> so 'draumbr' can't be Old Swedish.

*sigh* Very well, I meant to say Old Gutnish. It is interesting,
though, that the 'b' should survive even after a svarabhakti sound
has been introduced between the 'm' and the 'r'.

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Haukur