kenning

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• Yngvildr's figurative language may recall the kennings of extemporized verse, and societies and audiences might see her words as a regression into oral society as opposed to literate society.

  Academic text (1998)

• The kennings for Odin in "Skaldskaparmal" also make no reference to him as a healer.

  Academic text (1999)

• There is much poetry in such naming, much metaphor, many kennings.

  Academic text (1990)

• Eld Vintic poetry, like Old English, Old Norse, and Anglo-Saxon poetry, uses caesurae and kennings.

  Blog text (23)

• One kenning (a Norse stock epithet) for a woman is "necklace-tree," and I began to see this place as a green mound above the offered necklaces of birch leaves.

  Academic text (2009)

• Perhaps no verse since the Anglo-Saxon period, when kennings offered poetic representations of experience by yoking together unrelated words, contains as strong an urge towards compounding as does that written by World War I poets.

  Academic text (1996)

• In Old English poetry, a common kenning for the sea is 'whale-road'.

• Many kennings can be found in the works of Anglo-Saxon poets, enriching their texts with metaphorical language.

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