Definition of Kennings

1. Noun. (plural of kenning) ¹

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Definition of Kennings

1. kenning [n] - See also: kenning

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kennings

kennel
kennel coal
kennel cough
kenneled
kenneling
kennelled
kennellike
kennelling
kennels
kenner
kenners
kennet
kennetjie
kennets
kenning
kennings (current term)
keno
keno-
kenogenesis
kenogenetic
kenophobia
kenos
kenoses
kenosis
kenosises
kenotic
kenotron
kenotrons
kenpaullone
kenpaullones

Literary usage of Kennings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1900)
"But it will better put Icelandic kennings before an English reader to ... And for selection I shall confine myself chiefly to the kennings of the poet Egil, ..."

2. Corpus Poeticum Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue from the by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1883)
"A section largely drawn from the court-poets' kennings for ship. 15. Hart. ... For this section the compiler is indebted to the Encomia kennings for battle ..."

3. Corpus Poeticvm Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue, from the by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1883)
"A section largely drawn from the court-poets' kennings for ship. 15. Hart. ... For this section the compiler is indebted to the Encomia kennings for battle, ..."

4. Translations from the Icelandic: Being Select Passages Introductory to by William Charles Green (1908)
"The 'kennings' of the older poets were really poetical metaphors: but later bards ... Those curious about kennings may consult the early part of the Corpus ..."

5. Illinois Studies in Language and Literature by University of Illinois (1919)
"The kennings employed are not felt by the poet in their original meaning, ... As to the origin of the kennings there may be a difference of opinion. ..."

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