Anglo-Saxon poetry such as Beowulf often contain kennings. A kenning is roundabout, two-word phrase that takes the place of a one-word noun. Anglo-Saxon poetry was alliterative (repetition of initial consonant sounds such as crazy camels, dingy delis, beautiful bagels), so often these kennings would chime in with nearby words. You can think of them as mini two-word riddles. For example, a “Storm of swords” was a battle; “Battle-outfits” were armor; “Raven-harvest” were corpses on a field of battle (because ravens raven on the dead), “Heaven’s candle” is the sun, and “Word-hoard” is a poet’s repository of terms, their vocabulary.
Please give three contemporary kennings.
