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1 kenning
* * *(pl. -ar), f.1) teaching, doctrine, lesson, esp. of preaching; kenna kenningar, to preach;* * *f. doctrine, teaching, lesson, esp. of preaching, Fms. i. 148; kenna kenningar, to teach, preach, 625. 24, K. Á. 22, Bs. i. 140, N. T., Vídal.; tíðagörð ok k., passim; á-kenning, q. v.; viðr-k., acknowledgment.2. a mark of recognition, Grett. 132 A; kenningar-orð, words of admonition, Hkr. iii. 23, Fb. iii. 279; kenningar-maðr = kennimaðr, Rb. 366; kenningar-sveinn, an apprentice, N. G. L. ii. 204.II. a poetical periphrasis or descriptive name (see kenna A. V. 2), Edda passim, opp. to ókennd heiti ( simple appellatives); a kenning is either simple (kennt), double (tví-kennt), or triple (rekit). The ancient circumlocutions were either drawn from mythology, as to call Thor the son of Earth (Jarðar sunr), and the heaven the skull of Ymir; or from the thing itself (sann-kenning), as to call the breast the mind’s abode: similar phraseology is found in all ancient poetry, but in the old northern poets it was carried farther and was more artificial than in other languages.COMPDS: kenningarfaðir, kenningarnafn, kenningarson. -
2 sæmdar-hlutr
m. a share of honour, Lv. 55, Sturl. i. 105; þessi tvau hundruð silfrs skaltú þiggja, ok er þetta nökkurr sæmdafhlutr, some acknowledgment, Band. 26 new Ed. -
3 viðr-kenning
f. = viðrkomning, Bs. i. 70, 304, Magn. 480: mod. a confession, acknowledgment.
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