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title: "Post #143406840958"
date: 2016-04-26 01:55:02 +00
tags: tumblr
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[historical-nonfiction](http://historical-nonfiction.tumblr.com/post/143381242069/a-kenning-was-a-circumlocution-used-instead-of-the):

> A kenning was a circumlocution used instead of the ordinary noun in Old Norse, Old English, and later Icelandic poetry. Some examples include “battle-sweat” for blood, “flame-farewelled” for an (honorable) death, and “Freyja’s tears” for gold, or sometimes amber. I particularly like “whale-road” or “whale-way” which means the sea.

April 25th, 2016 6:55pm