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Kennings: Beowulf
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Kennings
A journey through Beowulf
By: Kaila Beam
Tito Benfield
Grendel
- Tarn-hag: a lake witch
Ln 1519 "The tarn-hag in all her terrible strength"
- Shadow-stalker:
Ln 704 "Then out of the night came the shadow-stalker, stealthy and swift"
- Fen bank: Banks of the marsh
Ln 818 "The glory of winning; Grendel was driven, Under the fen banks fatally hurt"
Monster
Dragon
- Barrow-dweller
Ln 2841 "and found the deep barrow-dweller, on gaurd and awake"
- Poison-breather
Ln 2839 "The outpurings of that poison-breatheror gone forgaing on the ring-hall floor.
- Sky-winger
Ln 2314 "That scared everyone, for the vile sky-winger would leave nothign alive in his wake
- Sky-roamer
Ln 2830 "So the sky-roamer lay there ridgid, brought low beside the tresure-lodge
- Sky-plague
Ln 2347 "to line up with a large army aganinst the sky plague"
Battle Related
Battle Related
- Life-blood: Blood
Ln. 2692 "Into his neck Beowulf’s body ran wet with his life-blood: it came welling out"
- Battle-dodgers
Ln. 2846 "The battle-dodgers abandoned the wood,
The ones who had let down their lord earlier"
- Tail-turner: Cowards
Ln. 2848 "The tail-turners, ten of them together.
When he needed them the most, they had made off"
- Wave-crosser
Ln. 1907 "Sail ropes were tightened , timbers drummers And stiff winds kept the wave-crosser"
Nature
Nature
- Ice-clad: Ice covered
Ln 33 "A ring-whorled prow ride in the harbour"
- Whale-road: The sea
Ln 9 "In the end each clan on the outlying coasts
Beyond the whale-road had to yield to him"
- Earth-vault:
Ln 2410 "He led them to the earth-vault he alone knew an underground barrow neathe sea billows"
Additional
- Monster-slayer: Beowulf
- War-needles: Arrows
- Sea-horse: Ship
- War-twig: Sword
- Wound-stick: Sword
Additional
http://buckenglish.wikifoundry.com/page/Kennin...
http://buckenglish.wikifoundry.com/page/Kennings
https://mralbertsclass.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/beowulf-translation-by-seamus-heaney.pdf
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/harold-lloyd/kennings-ive-made-a-littl_b_9198846.html