[1] flugstalla ‘of precipice-altars [MOUNTAINS]’: According to Fritzner: flug 2, flug means ‘steep mountain-side’ (cf. ModIcel. flug, ModNorw. and Faroese flog ‘steep bluff’) and stallr means ‘altar’ (Fritzner: stallr 1). This kenning is formed according to the pattern ‘place where something is’. ‘Place’ can be replaced by any location; here stallr ‘altar’. Hence flugstallr ‘precipice-altar’ is a kenning for ‘mountain’, the place where precipices are (see also Finnur Jónsson 1900b, 376). Genzmer (1934, 67) weighs various ways to interpret flugstallr and finally opts for ‘the high load-bearer, roof beam’, which he goes on to explain as an ofljóst construction for áss ‘one of the Æsir’ in light of its homonymy with áss ‘beam’. This is not very convincing (cf. also Reichardt 1948, 331).