1882: New Kennings (Maybe) Feb 9, 2020

Kennings are defined by being metaphoric compounds, and while they are generally associated exclusively with Old English or Old Norse, the template for it is still in use in some ways. There are some limitations on how new kenning-like compounds are formed, because in some cases they relied on mythology, or other common metaphoric images, but modern words like 'skyscraper'—which is a metaphoric compound in its own right—are not so different to actual kennings like 'hron-rād' ('whale-road') for a river or 'vindauga' ('wind-eye') for a window.