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KENNINGS

What’s a kenning? Circumlocation Periphrasis Sort of a riddle A way of referring to a thing without naming it—using an indirect, suggestive phrase instead.

For example, what does this mean? whale-road sail-road

Or this? bone-house

bane of wood sun of houses Or these? bane of wood sun of houses

slaughter-dew battle-sweat wound-sea Or these? slaughter-dew battle-sweat wound-sea

blood-worm icicle of blood wound-hoe onion of war Or these? blood-worm icicle of blood wound-hoe onion of war

bird-playground umbrella of nature Or these? bird-playground umbrella of nature

A note on structure (you’ll need this) Kennings are generally made up of two nouns. Let’s take whale-road as an example. In Old Norse and Old English, the form of the words would express that one modified or belonged to the other. Modern English words can’t do that, so kennings are translated in a few different ways. We’ll call them: Possessive Prepositional Hyphenated Open compound

For whale-road: Possessive: whale’s road Prepositional: road of whale Hyphenated: whale-road Open compound: whaley* road *not a word