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What are kennings?

What are kennings? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of kenning
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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.

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