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Kenning Defined
A compound word or phrase similar to an epithet, but which involves a multi-noun replacement for a single noun, such as wave traveler for boat or whale-path for ocean, used especially in Old English, Old Norse and early Teutonic poetry. A type of periphrasis, some kennings are instances of metaphor, metonymy, or synecdoche.
Sidelight: Beowulf, the oldest known epic poem in English, contains numerous examples of kennings. Milton used the kenning, day-star, for sun, in Lycidas.
(See also Ricochet Words, Tmesis)
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Mon Mar 16
- The Kenning Game: An Introduction: Kennings are an old Norse poetic device based on the analogy. They're similar to Homeric epithets. Where the Greeks might say "the wine-dark sea" in their epic poetry, the Norse would say "whale road." This of course comes from the analogy "sea is to whale as road is to horse" or something like it. To use the standard shorthand, this becomes sea : whale :: road : horse. The key to the Kenning Game is realising that such an analogy provides four kennings possible (or at least permissible). In this case, we have sea = whale road, whale = sea horse, road = horse sea, horse = road whale. ... Some of these seem a little strange, but we might make sense of them by positing that "road whale" for "horse&qu ot; is the product of a culture of aquatic intelligent beings that ride whales the way we ride horses. Some kennings do come out strangely, but one thing we are after in art is the novel viewpoint.
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- Sigurd Snake-in-the-E ye - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Sigurðr ormr í auga (snake-in-the- eye)
- Ragnar Lodbrok - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Ragnarr loðbrók (hairy-breeks) . When Ragnar thrown into the snake pit by king Ella, protected by enchanted shirt that Kraka made. Only when shirt removed that snakes could bite Ragnar and kill him.
- Hvitserk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Halfdan hvitsärk (whiteshirt)
- Björn Ironside - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Björn járnsíða (ironside)
- Gunnhild Mother of Kings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Gunnhildr konungamóðir (mother-of-kin gs)
- Eric Bloodaxe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Eiríkr blóðøx (bloodaxe)
- Gorm the Old - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Gormr gamli (the old)
- Harald I of Denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Haraldr blátönn (bluetooth or darktooth), remains were buried in the cathedral at Roskilde, where his bones are still preserved, walled up in one of the pillars of the choir.
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