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- Kenning - Wikipedia
Kennings are strongly associated with Old Norse–Icelandic and Old English alliterative verse They continued to be a feature of Icelandic poetry (including rímur) for centuries, together with the closely related heiti
- Kenning - Definition and Examples of Kenning - Literary Devices
A kenning is a metaphorical compound word or phrase used to name or describe something Think of it as a compressed metaphor, a poetic substitution for a concrete noun It’s especially common in Old Norse and Old English poetry, though the technique appears across many cultures and time periods
- Kenning - Definition and Examples | LitCharts
A kenning is a figure of speech in which two words are combined in order to form a poetic expression that refers to a person or a thing For example, "whale-road" is a kenning for the sea
- Kenning | Old Norse, Poetry, Riddle | Britannica
kenning, concise compound or figurative phrase replacing a common noun, especially in Old Germanic, Old Norse, and Old English poetry A kenning is commonly a simple stock compound such as “whale-path” or “swan road” for “sea,” “God’s beacon” for “sun,” or “ring-giver” for “king ”
- List of kennings - Wikipedia
A kenning (Old English kenning [cʰɛnːiŋɡ], Modern Icelandic [cʰɛnːiŋk]) is a circumlocution, an ambiguous or roundabout figure of speech, used instead of an ordinary noun in Old Norse, Old English, and later Icelandic poetry
- Examples of Kenning - YourDictionary
The Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse traditions have a word for a compound expression with a metaphorical meaning: kenning Simply put, in poetry, a kenning is when you take two words and combine them as a mild translation or metaphor for something else
- Kenning | The Poetry Foundation
A figurative compound word that takes the place of an ordinary noun Many kennings rely on myths or legends to make meaning and are found in Old Germanic, Norse, and English poetry, including The Seafarer, in which the ocean is called a “whale-path ” (See Ezra Pound’s translation)
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