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kenning Kenned kenningar kennings

Conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry WordNet 3.0

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Conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

A kenning is a figure of speech in the type of circumlocution, a compound that employs figurative language in place of a more concrete single-word noun. Wikipedia

Circumlocution used instead of an ordinary noun in Old Norse and later Icelandic poetry. Wikipedia Disambiguation

Figure of speech Wikidata

A metaphorical phrase used in Germanic poetry (especially Old English or Old Norse) whereby a simple thing is described in an allusive way. Wiktionary

Metaphorical phrase used in Germanic poetry. Wiktionary (translation)

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