Kennings+and+Foreshadowing

= ﻿ **Kennings: **= **Kennings ** =Foreshadowing: =
 * poetic phrase, a figure of speech, substituted for the usual name of a person or thing. Kennings work in much the same way, like a nickname or slang and were commonly inserted into Old English poetic lines.
 * **Primary meaning ** || **Secondary/implied/allusive meaning ** ||
 * [|Ægir's daughters] || waves || Ægir had nine daughters called billow maidens who were personifications of the waves. ||
 * bait-gallows || hook ||  ||
 *  [|Baldur] 's bane || mistletoe || The kenning derives from the story in which all plants and creatures swore never to harm Baldur, save the mistletoe which was overlooked and which [|Loki] used to bring about Baldur's death by tricking [|Hodur] . ||
 * blood-ember || axe ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">brow-stars || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">eyes ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">breaker of trees || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">wind ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Feed the eagle || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">kill enemies || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Killing enemies left food for the eagles ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">feeder of ravens || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">warrior || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Ravens feed on dead bodies left after a battle. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">flame-farewelled || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">death || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Implicitly honourable death ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Hanged god || <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-decoration: none; textunderline: none;">[|Odin] || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Odin hung on the Tree of Knowledge for nine days in order to gain wisdom. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">ice || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">silver ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Kraki's seed || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">gold || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> [|Hrólf Kraki] spread gold on the [|Fyris Wolds] to distract the men of the Swedish king. Can also be used to imply generosity; q.v. [|Hrólf Kraki] ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Mountain of the hawk || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">arm || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">in falconeering, the hawk rests on the arm of its master ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Onion of war || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Sword ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">raven harvest || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">corpse || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">battle-field corpses ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">sea-steeds || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Ships ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">serpent's lair || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">gold || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Serpents (and dragons) were reputed to lie upon gold in their nests ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">slaughter-dew || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">blood ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">sleep of the sword || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">death ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">spear-din || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">battle ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">valley-trout || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">serpent ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">weather of weapons || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">war ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">whale's way || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">the sea ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Literary term meaning to show or indicate beforehand or forcast the future.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Examples of foreshadowing in Anglo-Saxon literature:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">In __Lord of the Rings__, when Bilbo Baggins kept looking at the ring, it implied that the ring was not just special to him, but important to the plot.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">In the book __Beowulf__, Wealhtheow is the wife of Hrothgar. She is portrayed as aware of the politics of the court and cautious for the well-being of her family. In __Beowulf__, she foreshadows some events that later happen to her family. An example of such an instance would be when she foreshadows the fall of the Great Hall caused by her family.

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