1 W. P. Lehmann in a review of Hans Krahe's Germanische Sprachwissenschaft, Lg. 33.608 (1957), points out that it is chiefly the suprasegmental features which our predecessors in historical linguistics left unexploited, and that one means of determining them more accurately is closer attention to manuscript practices.

2 Gustav Storm, Otte brudstykker af den ældste saga om Olav den heilige = Det norske historiske kildeskriftfond, No. 25 (Oslo, 1893).

3 The difference between the two forms of r and s, as well as the ligatures used in the manuscript for au and ǫ (in &thron;au ǫll), is ignored, as not pertinent to the discussion. Brackets indicate material lacking in the manuscript but supplied by Storm from closely related texts. Italics in this list indicate abbreviations, such as are customary in many medieval manuscripts. The numbers after each citation refer to page and line in Storm's text.

4 Adolf Noreen, Altisländische und altnorwegische Grammatik ⁴ 212, 223 (Halle, 1923).

5 Andreas Heusler, Altisländisches Elementarbuch ⁴ 150 (Heidelberg, 1950).

6 For these traditional manuscript designations see Noreen 10–2. The dating will be mentioned below.

7 Noreen 11; Storm 7–8, Introduction. On the dating of the manuscripts in general, see also Didrik Arup Seip, Palæografi B, Norge og Island = Nordisk Kultur 28B. 41–3, 85 (Stockholm, 1954); and Harald Spehr, Der Ursprung der isländischen Schrift 176–7 (Halle, 1929).

8 Einar Hau gen, First Grammatical Treatise: The earliest Germanic phonology = Language monograph No. 25 (Baltimore, 1950).