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The Bruce 31Book 11 · Change of vowel (Umlaut) appears in two cases--sterkar (E

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Book 11 · Change of vowel (Umlaut) appears in two cases--sterkar (E

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starkar) (XV. 491) and eldest (I. 51, IV. 71). Ill or evill is the Northern form for bad, compared with wer or war, werst (III. 192). Mor, for mar, occurs twice to rhyme with befor (X. 199, XII. 299). Er gives erar.

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