They composed and recited poems in a fairly simple verse form which relied heavily on alliteration and also the use of kennings. |
Many kennings are allusions that become unintelligible to later generations. |
We are delighted Kennings has chosen to take more vehicles from us. |
Yet, to explain kennings, reducing them to single words, is to explain them away. |
Your heart sang with his gleecraft, words wondrously wrought, kennings keen with knowing. |
Obviously, in poetry where this was one of the most important mechanisms, the kennings for very common nouns are various and inventive. |