The Kenning Forge

"Craft new kennings from ancient patterns"

Forge a Kenning

1 Choose your subject (the referent)

2 Choose your pattern

Compound: noun-noun "whale-road" Genitive: noun's noun "Sif's hair" Adjective: adj-noun "bright-wound"

3 Strike the anvil

A real kenning from the Norse corpus appears below. What does it mean?

Correct

Attempted

Streak

Combine any two words to forge your own kenning. Enter a determinant (the qualifier) and a base-word (the generic noun) to create a poetic compound.

Determinant

Base-word

Meaning (what it refers to)

Your kenning will appear here...