[All]: Björn Magnússon Ólsen (FoGT 1884, 245) considered this couplet was rather an unconvincing instance of the figure of cosmographia, and thought the example might be somewhat older than the treatise itself rather than a creation of the author. However, from the perspective of a medieval Christian, there is no problem in understanding the couplet as describing the nature or mode of being (háttr) of the world.