Kennings

Kennings are circumlocutions where two nouns (as a compound or genitive(s)) refer to a third, unspoken noun. Elements can be substituted with further kennings. There are around 10,000 kennings in the corpus, most of which are unique. This is a list of the kennings in the published volumes, grouped according to Meissner’s categories where applicable.

E.g. (random): grand garðs oddhríðar — ‘the harm of the yard of the point-storm’ = SWORD — in ESk Geisl 50VII