Talk:List of kennings

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Is the layout on this page badly broken for anyone else? For me, it is displaying with the header and the sidebar overlapping at the bottom of the main article text, and I don't know enough about formatting to be able to figure out what might be causing that. But if anyone can figure it out, it should probably be fixed!

Squidd 15:28, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Modern Kennings?

I wondered if there are examples of modern kennings? The reason I ask is that many years ago (>40) friends of mine used the term "limb-red" in place of sunburn, a practice they claimed had been handed down from older relatives.

This is highly subjective, I know, and so far I haven't been able to unearth a reference that corroborates its use, but it started me wondering... AncientBrit (talk) 02:11, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Alphabetize by primary meaning or by source language?

As this page grows, it's getting harder to see whether a kenning is already there. For example, there are several on the Kenning page which could be added, such as Old Norse grand viðar “bane of wood” = “fire” (Snorri Sturluson: Skáldskaparmál 36). Should you look up bane? wood's bane? I say it would be easiest to look up fire. I would also like to add a original language column.

When I have the time, I'll try to make this so.--Kenmayer (talk) 13:55, 1 April 2008 (UTC)