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Kenningar are poetic paraphrases of concepts in several words, which are found in Norse poetry. They are mostly impossible to solve without knowledge of the corresponding myth because they deliberately codify the concept. [1]
References
↑Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
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