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A kenning (Old English kenning [cʰɛnːiŋɡ], Modern Icelandic [cʰɛnːiŋk]) 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.
A comic version by English entertainer Billy Howard, "King of the Cops", was a British chart hit in 1976. [9] In both the English and German versions of Animals United (2010), Billy the Meerkat sings this song while Across to “The Valley of Death”. [10] "King of the Road" won Roger Miller 5 Grammy Awards at the 1966 8th Annual Grammy Awards ...
Detail of the Old English manuscript of the poem Beowulf, showing the words "ofer hron rade" ("over the whale's road"), meaning "over the sea".. A kenning (Icelandic: [cʰɛnːiŋk]) is a figure of speech, a figuratively-phrased compound term that is used in place of a simple single-word noun.
Although from the tenth century Old English writing from all regions tended to conform to a written standard based on Late West Saxon, in speech Old English continued to exhibit much local and regional variation, which remained in Middle English and to some extent Modern English dialects.
In 1914, F.W. Moorman, the first professor of English Language at University of Leeds, claimed that Beowulf was composed in Yorkshire, [62] but E. Talbot Donaldson claims that it was probably composed during the first half of the eighth century, and that the writer was a native of what was then called West Mercia, located in the Western ...
King of the Road (skateboarding), a contest sponsored by Thrasher magazine; King of the Road Map Service, an American map company; Hard Truck 2: King of the Road, the European version of the video game Hard Truck 2; Lucas Industries#King of the Road, a brand name used for a range of bicycle equipment produced by Lucas Industries
An English writing style is a combination of features in an English language composition that has become characteristic of a particular writer, a genre, a particular organization, or a profession more broadly (e.g., legal writing).
Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright. [1] He was a leading figure in English-language Modernist poetry where he reinvigorated the art through his use of language, writing style, and verse structure.