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Kenning   /kˈɛnɪŋ/   Listen
Kenning

noun
1.
Conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry.





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"Kenning" Quotes from Famous Books



... it no hae been a bonnie thing, an the leddy had been brought to bed, and me at the fair o' Drumshourloch, no kenning, nor dreaming a word about it? Wha was to hae keepit awa the worriecows, I trow? Ay, and the elves and gyre-carlings frae the bonnie bairn, grace be wi' it? Ay, or said Saint Colme's charm for its sake, the dear?' And without waiting an answer she ...
— Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott


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