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Kennings for a particular character are listed in that character's article. For example, the Odin article links to a list of names of Odin, which include kennings. A few examples of Odin's kennings are given here. For a scholarly list of kennings see Meissner's Die Kenningar der Skalden (1921) or some editions of Snorri Sturluson's ...
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.
List Name (Old Norse) Name (anglicized) Meaning Sources Aldafaðr or Aldafǫðr 'Father of mankind' [1] Óðins nǫfn (1), Vafþrúðnismál (4, 53) : Aldagautr 'Man ...
Kenneth Wayne Jennings III was born on May 23, 1974, [2] in Edmonds, Washington, a suburb of Seattle. [3] [4] His father was an international lawyer and moved the family to South Korea when Ken was in the first grade.
The Germanic god Thor (Old Norse: Þórr) is referred to by many names in Old Norse poetry and literature.Some of the names come from the Prose Edda list Nafnaþulur, and are not attested elsewhere, while other names are well attested throughout the sources of Norse mythology.
úr, based on the kennings, means "earth, clay, soil". The Auraicept glosses fraech "heath". edad and idhad are paired names of unknown meaning, although idhad may be a form of 'yew-tree', altered to make a pairing.
Florida teacher Thomas Kenning drowned in Lake Michigan after jumping in to save a teen girl who was struggling.
These include the New York Times bestselling [4] series, The Iron Druid Chronicles, [5] the Ink & Sigil series, the Seven Kennings trilogy, the Tales of Pell (co-authored with Delilah S. Dawson), and the 2015 Star Wars novel, Heir to the Jedi. [6] Hearne is a graduate of Northern Arizona University. [1]