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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