kenning

"I offer you a kenning of my own," he said to her.

Now began the hard part; the part that required kenning.

Old Kenning, the gamekeeper, had taught him how to do it.

Finally Kenning shrugged and turned to face the professor.

The phrase to feed the eagle is a kenning which means "to kill enemies".

Brood kenning was a limited form of it, though mainly concerned with gross physical characteristics.

An example of a kenning would be using the term whale-road instead of the word "sea".

Danny did not question the accuracy of the duplication, since Kenning was their greatest historical novelist.

Lady Kenning died in 1974 and the hall has remained a family home since, it was recently for sale at a price of £2.5 million.

The kenning of Uilleann, "great elbow", refers to the letter name.

A kenning used in the poem refers to Freyja.

Brood kenning had so many concepts without referents in human language that even Pilgrim couldn't make it clear.

Slade in a footnote states that "the kenning (if it is one) is obscure".

It is a kenning for Viking.

The name Beowulf has been hypothesized to mean "bee-wolf", a kenning for "bear".

The term kenning has been applied by modern scholars to similar figures of speech in other languages too, especially Old English.

He married Gloria Kenning on 16 June 1941, with whom he had two children.

A kenning is an obsolete unit of dry measure in the imperial system, equal to two pecks or half a bushel.

"choosers of the slain"), which in turn would be a kenning for dís.

In March 1999 Brian Kenning was appointed manager.

He married Maureen Kenning in 1963.

The unstated noun the kenning refers to is called its referent, in this case: skip "ship".

When Kenning was fired from the band in 1978, he was replaced by Frank Noon.

For other uses, see Kenning (disambiguation).

George Kenning (September 23, 1913 - November 3, 1988) was an American manager and consultant.