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INT296b Nicholas Mavromoustakos & Joseph Demma (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Kennings can be defined as two word Anglo-Saxon metaphors, used to symbolically identify creatures, objects, and phenomena, as a type of expressive imagery, which avoids naming the subject directly. |
 | | Kennings can also be used to avoid excessive repetition of names and to create an elaborate set of images in the reader’s mind. |
 | | Other kennings used in this work of literature are the following: “gold-friend,” referring to a lord who distributes riches to loyal men of his land; “earth-pit,” a ditch in the ground, probably a grave; “water-way” referring to the sea; and “dwelling-place,” the earth in which we live. |
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