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but the frequent and best use, as well as contractions, show
the r to be spurious as
kallag, brennig, telk, for kalla ek etc.,
hyggig, hykk for hygg ek etc.
126. It is more correct to end the 1
st
Pers. of the Im-
perfect in -a, than in -i, for the preceding part of the verb
has always those vowels which harmonize wilh a and not with
i, except when i in the Present has been substituted by deri-
vation and runs in every tense through the entire word, as
brenni, from brann.
127. The 1
st
Pers. of the Conj. Present is also more
correctly ended in a than i, but both are frequently used, and
good manuscripts prefer in certain cases the -i.
Abbreviations like hugQak (Lodbrkv. 24) munak (Snorra
E. 35) also prove the termination -a.
The 1
st
Person Plural has -im, in harmony with the other
termination, and by a general use of the ancients; in the mo-
dern language this person has been changed into -um as the
Indicative (kollum, brennum, teljum).
128. The 1
st
Pers. of the Conj. Imp. has sometimes -a
instead of i in ancient writers, chiefly used by the Skalds;
but it is less correct considering the vowel of the chief syllable.
It is therefore less correct to say vekba ek than vekti ek
ba3paek - bsefti ek
(Snorra E. 97) except the third person be taken, which could
perhaps be placed in the 1
st
pers., as is done in the oriental
languages.
It is however always correct in the plural that the 1
st
pers.
should terminate in -im, the 21"1
in -it, although, -um, ut, is
to be met with in more recent Mss. In all verbs, (except the
1
st
Class) with the modification of vowel in the principal syl-
lable, which requires the termination -i, as:
kOlluQum, kOlluQut, brendum, brendut, teldum,
t e 1 d u t..
The 3 r<1
Pers. is only found in u, in the modern icelandic
of the northern dialect, as:
kollu5u, brendu, teldu
although these forms have crept into all Mss. The two first
persons in -um and -ut are generally wrong, even if they ap-
pear in the Sagas or the Skalds.
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