probable is Bülbring’s view that Orm spoke a mixed dialect, in which an [ö] sound existed beside the [e] sound, and that he finally decided for the latter. Oral #a# is _a_, acc 3, habbenn 51; #a# before nasals _a_, grammcunndnesse 86, ‘năme’ i. 9717; #a# before lengthening groups _a_, faldess 56 (#fal(o)d#), hande 10, sang 131, but short in annd 114, unstressed, stanndenn 67, 117: the indefinite pronoun is mann 36. #æ# is _a_, affterr 21, fasste 59, wăke 76; ꝥat 46 was probably meant for þatt: wrecche 4 (4 times), wrecchelike 24 is OE. #wrecca#. #e# is _e_, cwellen 38, hĕre 123, hĕte 87, sett 146, but se̋tt 68 (probably miswritten), stressed wel 34 (13), qualifying a verb, and in most cases at the end of the first half-line, beside well 29 (4), qualifying adjective or adverb; #e# before lengthening groups is _e_, ende 113, genge 129, but short are senndeþþ 62 and enngle 15 (10), with a consonant after the lengthening group: whillc 152, iwhillc 134, 161 represent #hwilc#, #gehwilc#, swillke 69, #swilc#. #i# is _i_, cribbe 2, friþþ 133, inn 2 &c., mikell 93, wĭtenn 3 (Orm divided wiþþ utenn 113), but in 170: #i# before lengthening groups is _i_, bindenn 10, child 4, shildenn 67, 126, but brinngenn 18, sinndenn 74, 169, winnde clū́t 2, 7. #o# is _o_, follc 30, biforenn 16; before lengthening groups _o_, unorneliȝ 45, worde 60, but short are wollde 5, forrþrihht 1 (usually forþ uncompounded): #o# is _u_ in wurrþenn 33, 48 (#worden#) by analogy of the infinitive. #u# is _u_, stunnt 27, vnnorne 4; before lengthening groups _u_, sungenn 131, tunge 119, wundenn 7, but short are hunngerr 37, unnderrstanndenn 109, wullderr 132, wunnderrliȝ 35. #y# is _i_, dill 27 (*#dyll#), gillteþþ 155, ifell 64, þrisst 37, wrihhte 151; before lengthening groups, kinde 108, but birrþ 3, 44. #ā# is _a_, á 174, lare 79, whas 90; before two consonants _a_, bitacneþþ 100, gast 73: shortening in hallȝhe 69: #swā# is usually swa 17, but se 1 (#swē#). #ǣ{1}# is _æ_, hæþenndom 161, læreþþ 73, sæ 12; before two consonants _æ_, næfre 41, unnclænnesse 161, but _a_ in aniȝ 157 (#ānig#), lasse 39, mast 169 (North. #māst#). #ǣ{2}# is mostly _æ_, færedd 84, 91, lætenn 45, 54, þær 19 (4), wæde 8, wære 17 (3), wærenn 58 (3), but _e_ in greditleȝȝc 167, and with shortening fordredd 88 (4); before two consonants _æ_, wæpnedd 90, and _e_ with shortening, sellðe 95. #ē# is _e_, betenn 158, eche 19, fe̋t 10, le̋t 10, but _o_ in doþ 29 &c., from the plural. #ī# is _i_, bliþe 85, pinenn 36, riche 5 (4); before two consonants _i_, crist 1, 90, cristenndom 49, but elsewhere usually crisstendom. #ō# is _o_, dom 75, god 71; before two consonants _o_, frofrenn 60, 66: shortened in comm 26, 30, 55, soffte 85. #ū# is _u_, brukenn 174, -clū̋t 2, űt (numen) 53; shortened in vpp 18, 142, uss 3, 62. #ȳ# is _i_, bisne 43 (#bȳsne#), grisliȝ 91 (*#grȳslig#), kiþenn 92, litell 21 (3), shrideþþ 6.