What does the word kenning mean?

Answer 1

A kenning is like a poem but just not that many word's write one you need to have a tittle ,at least 6 lines, and optional if you want to give away the answer. A kenning looks like this: A tail wager

a tail wager

a mighty barker

a ball fetcher

a food eater

a snoring sleeper

a happy bringer

Answer : a dog

Answer 2

Anglo-Saxon poetry often incorporated the use of kennings (compact metaphors) for easier memorization, as rhyming was not used.

An example of a kenning: "My soul roams in the sea, the whale's home..."

Answer 3

In simple terms, it is a metaphor in the form of two words. A kenning for ocean, for example, might be swan-road.

Answer 4

a type of compound metaphor that was used in Norse and Old English poetry to replace a concrete noun A+