7. Other
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There is also a group of kennings for poetry which do not fit into the conventional structure. They all have the structure ‘the liquid of the [kenning for] breast of [kenning or heiti for] Óðinn’. As ‘breast of Óðinn’ is not itself a kenning, it has to be taken instead as a two-part determinant with the liquid-word as the base word:
a. {mar
{munstrandar} Viðris}} — (Egill Hfl 1)
b. {the
sea {of the mind-shore} [BREAST] of Viðrir} <= Óðinn>} [POETRY]
c. the
sea of the mind-shore [BREAST] of Viðrir <= Óðinn> [POETRY]
a. {lô {geðfjarðar}
{Hildar hjaldr{gegnis}}} — (UlfrU Hús 1)
b. {the
surf {of the mind-fjord} [BREAST] {of the promoter {of the noise of Hildr
<valkyrie>}} }[(lit. ‘of the noise-promoter of Hildr’) BATTLE > = Óðinn]} [POETRY]
c. the
surf of the mind-fjord [BREAST] of the promoter of the noise of of Hildr <valkyrie> [(lit. ‘of the noise-promoter of Hildr’) BATTLE > = Óðinn] [POETRY]
a. {ægir
{ógnstǫðvar} {bǫðgœðis}} — (Refr 3, 2)
b. {the
sea {of the terror-home} [BREAST] {of the battle-strengthener} [=
Óðinn]} [POETRY]
c. the
sea of the terror-home [BREAST] of the battle-strengthener [= Óðinn] [POETRY]
Note that the last three of these have the last two referents separated (‘[= Óðinn] [POETRY]’, not ‘[= Óðinn > POETRY]’). This is because the referent ‘= Óðinn’ is not on its own the determinant of the outer kenning.