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List of kennings
A
kenning
(
Old Norse
kenning
,
Modern Icelandic
) is a
circumlocution
(an ambiguous or roundabout figure of speech) used instead of an ordinary
noun
in Old Norse,
Old English
and later
Icelandic
poetry.
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