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Rjurik Kennings
From BRWiki
Kennings are poetic expressions. They are formed by the skalds in their sagas, but many enter the everyday usage of the Rjurik brought up on such tales.
- Arrows - wound-bees
- Arm -mountain of the hawk
- Axe - blood-ember, wound-wolf, wound griever
- Battle - game of iron, spear-din, storm of metal
- Beer - pool of malt, sea of the horn
- Blacksmith - pole of iron
- Blood - arrow-dew, milk of corpses, river of swords, slaughter-dew
- Corpse - eagles-feast, ravens-feast
- Death - sleep of the spear, sleep of the sword
- Drinking horn - Auroch's spear
- Eagle - battle-crane, battle-bird, Holn's winged ones
- Earth - firmament of the heather
- Eyes - brow-stars
- Farm land - sorrow of oxen
- Fire - terror of birch
- Generous - hostile to gold
- Gold - arm-fire, fire of the wave, river-fire, Sera's tempting treasure, serpent's lair, soul-coruptor, Vani's hair
- Head - helmet-grab
- Hearth-stone - table of fire
- Honorable Death - flame-farewelled
- Hot Iron - gold of the fire, the red which becomes black
- Kill - feed the eagle
- King - breaker of rings, giver of rings, land-demander
- Man - Erik's Oak, sons of the all-father
- Poetry - giant's drink, lip-streams of skalds, mead of Erik, Lara's gift
- Sea - great salt road, swan-road, whales' way
- Ship - Narikja's horse, sea-steeds, steed of the billows
- Silver - arm-snow, snow upon the mountain
- Sky - wind-bowl, Holn's heavens
- Snake - thong of the heather, valley-fish
- Spear - flying thorn
- Sword - blood-worm, glory of battle, hilt-wand, onion of war, war-flame, wound-engraver, wound-snake
- Warrior - enemy of goblins, feeder of ravens, painter of the wolf's tooth, rouser of the valkyrie, spear-shaker, wolf-feeder
- Waves - Narikja's kisses
- Wife - goddess of the needle, pourer of the beer
- Wind - breaker of trees, sail-master, wave-troubler
- Wolf - horse of the goblin
- Woman - goddess of the white arm
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