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Rh can only stand for s has been replaced by læcecræftes. Yet, with the exception of the sign œ which has been silently normalized into æ wherever it occurs, I have never ventured to correct a word without mentioning it in its incorrect form in the footnotes, the form substituted being always that of ms. V, unless otherwise noted. Besides those necessary substitutions, which are regularly indicated by an asterisk, I have had recourse to ms. V wherever the obscurity of ms. O made it desirable. In such cases I have inserted the reading of ms. V within brackets in the text (with no asterisk) and quoted that of ms. O in the notes. Parentheses have been used only when a letter was faint or had altogether disappeared from the text, f. i. scínla(c) 165. I have allowed myself a free hand with regard to the separation of words, often uniting what is separated and separating what is united: thus I have written wif-þingun 1016 1017 instead of wifþingun which is the reading of the ms.; my principle in that respect has been to write as two words united by a hyphen the compounds which bear an accent upon the first element, f. i. setl-gange 62, heafod-ece 102, and as one word those in which the first element, accented or not, is merely a prefix. The glosses and also the peculiarities of writing