Abstract
There are several reasons why it is of great importance to include the kennings of the metrical runic inscriptions in thorough investigations of kennings, albeit their number is not particularly high. One reason for this is that there are Viking-Age metrical inscriptions with kennings attested from Eastern Scandinavia, and mostly in eddic metres. Further, some of these kennings belong to the oldest kennings we know at all from Scandinavia, e. g. the kennings of the Theoderic-stanza on the Swedish Rök stone are older than the work of Bragi Boddason. To make it easier for further research to include these kennings, this article gives a short overview of this material. It is worth considering the kennings of the metrical runic inscriptions, for they show a great variety and they are highly developed. Beside the use of tvíkennt and rekit kennings, they testify the knowledge of half-kennings and the poetic device of ofljóst in medieval Norway.
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- Frontmatter
- Obituaries
- In memoriam: Klaus Düwel
- In memoriam: Julia Zernack
- Editorial
- Kenningstudien
- Kenningstudien
- Kennings and variability
- Kennings for ‘raven’ and ‘eagle’
- Riddles and Kennings
- Kennings in Old English Verse and in the Poetic Edda
- Kenningar in den metrischen Runeninschriften der Wikingerzeit und des Mittelalters
- “The fair draught of Óðinn”
- Articles
- Lene Asks Kjære Rikard som utgangspunkt for utvikling av emosjonell literacy og mentaliseringsevne
- Den kriminelle romanen og leseren
- Reviews
- Harald Bjorvand/Fredrik Otto Lindeman:Våre arveord. Etymologisk ordbok
- Helge Sandøy, Agnete Nesse (eds.):Norsk språkhistorie. Bd. I Mønster (681 S.), Bd. II Praksis (684 S.), Bd. III Ideologi (548 S.), Bd. IV Tidslinjer (798 S.)
- Katharina Fürholzer:Das Ethos des Pathographen: Literatur- und medizinethische Dimensionen von Krankenbiographien
- Leonie Krutzinna:Der norwegische Schwitters. Die Merz-Kunst im Exil
- Rebecca Merkelbach:Monsters in Society. Alterity, Transgression and the Use of the Medieval Past in Medieval Iceland
- Kim P. Middel:The search for self-awareness. The road to national identity on Iceland, sæc. xiii–xx