[1] á ‘to’: It is not possible to interpret á ‘to’ as an adv. (so Skj B; Finnur Jónsson 1931, 108-9), because this is a Type A-line, and á must be an unstressed, proclitic prep. modifying Sýrar in the cadence (no sentence boundary can fall between metrical positions 4 and 5 in this type of line). The latter word must therefore be part of the poetry-kenning (see Note to ll. 1, 2, 3, 4 above), though quite a bulky one.