[All]: As Faulkes points out (SnE 2007, 143: sannkenning), the word kenning is not used to refer to metaphor here, but rather ‘in the formal sense of the use of a description or compound containing two elements, whether metaphorical or not’.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 2007 = Snorri Sturluson. 2007. Edda: Háttatal. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.