Rjurik Kennings

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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