[5] smiðr lifnaðar ‘smith of the [good] life’: The reference is to Dionysius, though LP: lifnaðr identifies the referent of this kenning as Rusticus, while Kahle (1898, 117), who expresses uncertainty, indentifies it as Elutherius. The prose saga, however, states clearly that it was Dionysius who was tortured in a burning oven (þa let greifinn kynda ofn gloanda ok kastadi þangat Dionisio ‘then the count had a burning oven heated and threw Dionysius into it’, Unger 1877, I, 317). Dionysius is also the referent of the second kenning (l. 8), as the saga refers to him on several occasions as enn forni karl ‘the old fellow’.