kenning
nafnorðkvenkyn
doctrine, teaching, lesson, of preaching, i. 148; kenna kenningar, to teach, preach, 625. 24, 22, i. 140, , ; tíðagörð ok k., passim; á-kenning, ; viðr-k., acknowledgment.
2. a mark of recognition, 132 A; kenningar-orð, words of admonition, iii. 23, iii. 279; kenningar-maðr = kennimaðr, 366; kenningar-sveinn, an apprentice, ii. 204.II. a poetical periphrasis or descriptive name (see kenna A. V. 2), passim, to ókennd heiti (simple appellatives); a kenning is either simple (kennt), double (tví-kennt), or triple (rekit). The ancient circumlocutions were either drawn from mythology, as to call Thor the son of Earth (Jarðar sunr), and the heaven the skull of Ymir; or from the thing itself (sann-kenning), as to call the breast the mind’s abode: similar phraseology is found in all ancient poetry, but in the old northern poets it was carried farther and was more artificial than in other languages.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
- esp.especially.
- q. v.quod vide.
- opp.opposed.
- COMPDSsamsett orð (e. compounds)
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- K. Á.Kristinn-réttr Árna biskups. (B. III.)
- Bs.Biskupa sögur. (D. III.)
- N. T.New Testament.
- Vídal.Vídalíns-Postilla.
- Grett.Grettis saga. (D. II.)
- Hkr.Heimskringla. (E. I.)
- Fb.Flateyjar-bók (E. I.)
- Rb.Rímbegla. (H. III.)
- N. G. L.Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)
- EddaEdda. (C. I.)