Kennings are strongly associated with Old Norse and later Icelandic and Anglo-Saxon poetry.

Kennings of up to seven elements are recorded in skaldic verse.

Kennings are devices ready to supply a standard image to form an alliterating half-line to fit the requirements of dróttkvætt ; but the substantially greater technical demands of skaldic verse required that these devices be multiplied and compounded in order to meet its demands for skill and wordplay.

* Kennings are used sparingly and opaque ones are rare.

* Kennings are used frequently.

Kennings could be developed into extended, and sometimes vivid, metaphors: tröddusk törgur fyr [...] hjalta harðfótum “ shields were trodden under the hard feet of the hilt ( sword blades )” ( Eyvindr Skáldaspillir: Hákonarmál 6 ); svarraði sárgymir á sverða nesi “ wound-sea (= blood ) sprayed on headland of swords (= shield )” ( Eyvindr Skáldaspillir: Hákonarmál 7 ).

“ Kenning Morphology: Towards a Formal Definition of the Skaldic Kenning, or Kennings and Adjectives .” 13th International Saga Conference: Durham and York.

Reynolds refused to provide any proof of Kennings ' existence.

Kennings of the type AB, where B routinely has the characteristic A and thus this AB is tautological, tends to mean " like B in that it has the characteristic A ", e. g. " shield-Njörðr ", tautological because the god Njörðr by nature has his own shield, means " like Njörðr in that he has a shield ", i. e. " warrior ".

With so many similarities between the purported life of Anthony and proven hoaxes such as that of Kaycee Nicole and Kodee Kennings, the prevailing belief is that Anthony never existed.

These dates are virtually the only clues we have to the chronology of the poems, since the separate volumes are neither chronological within themselves nor in relation to each other.

These are the wines the French themselves use for everyday drinking, for even in France virtually no one drinks the Grands Crus on a meal-to-meal basis.

Altogether fifteen virtually unknown Rodgers and Hart songs are sung by a quintet of able vocalists.

Biological anthropologists are interested in both human variation and in the possibility of human universals ( behaviors, ideas or concepts shared by virtually all human cultures ) They use many different methods of study, but modern population genetics, participant observation and other techniques often take anthropologists " into the field ," which means traveling to a community in its own setting, to do something called " fieldwork.

With a few exceptions, adult amphibians are predators, feeding on virtually anything that moves that they can swallow.

Many food plants are, or are grown as, annuals, including virtually all domesticated grains.

Soviet investment in and support of Armenian industry has virtually disappeared, so that few major enterprises are still able to function.

To quote the Encyclopædia Britannicas article on Arianism: " In modern times some Unitarians are virtually Arians in that they are unwilling either to reduce Christ to a mere human being or to attribute to him a divine nature identical with that of the Father.

Informally known as " The Big Book " ( with its first 164 pages virtually unchanged since the 1939 edition ), it suggests a twelve-step program in which members admit that they are powerless over alcohol and need help from a " higher power "; seek guidance and strength through prayer and meditation from God or Higher Power of their own understanding ; take a moral inventory with care to include resentments ; list and become ready to remove character defects ; list and make amends to those harmed, and then try to help other alcoholics recover.

Such drinks are legally classified as beers in virtually all states and can therefore be sold in outlets that do not or cannot carry spirit-based drinks.

Since the speed of sound varies with temperature, and is virtually stable with pressure change, sonic anemometers are also used as thermometers.

Many goods and items are restricted from being sold between midnight and noon on Sunday, rendering virtually all retailers closed in those hours, including malls and large retail chains such as Walmart.

Ian Kaplan of BearCave. com gave the book three stars out of five, saying that while he was " not entirely satisified " and felt that the " story tends to be shallow ", " Jeter does deal with the moral dilemma of the Blade Runners who hunt down beings that are virtually human in every way.

Shotgun sequencing is the method of choice for virtually all genomes sequenced today, and genome assembly algorithms are a critical area of bioinformatics research.

Although a bee sting can be deadly to those with allergies, virtually all bee species are non-aggressive if undisturbed and many cannot sting at all.

An Administrator is required in the Consumer Proposal, and a Trustee in the Division I Proposal ( these are virtually the same although the terms are not interchangeable ).

It is common for retiring professors to have served the university for thirty, forty, and even occasionally, fifty years, a circumstance that has contributed to the stability and conservatism of an institution of higher learning that has virtually no endowment and at which faculty salaries are " sacrificial.

Pop culture has depicted and parodied the efforts of both nations to solidify their cultural uniqueness — primarily by Canada, as its population and economy are roughly one tenth that of the United States — to deter international perception that Americans and Canadians are virtually identical.

The list is virtually endless, and the possibilities are vast.

Today there are Celtic-influenced sub genres of virtually every type of popular music including electronica, rock, metal, punk, hip hop, reggae, new age, Latin, Andean and pop.

Willard Thorp, in his new book, American Writing In The Twentieth Century, observes, quite validly it seems: `` Certain subjects are conspicuously absent or have been only lightly touched.

When combined with the metaphysical notion that pure forms of this universe are best appreciated when least embodied in a material substratum, it becomes clear that while earth will be dross on a scale of material-formal ratios, celestial bodies will be of a subtle, quickened, ethereal existence, in whose embodiment pure form will be the dominant component and matter will be absent or remain subsidiary.

i.e., burglars who rob while the tenants are absent, in contrast to hot-slough prowlers, those who work while the occupants are home.

and, in contrast, are present to a relatively immense degree on a segmental basis in the dog where lobules are absent ( Van Allen and Lindskog, '31 ).

The pleura is extremely thin in type 2 and septa are absent.

You never are late for work and seldom absent.

As always, a tape recording or detailed notes are made, and a typescript of this is sent to the absent sitter.

Now the original absent sitter must decide whether the statements are meaningful to him.

Oh-the-pain-of-it, that convention of Russian ballet whereby the girls convey the idea that they are all the daughters of impoverished Grand Dukes driven to the stage out of filial piety, is totally absent from the Kirov.

There are some passages in the writings of Irenaeus where the image of God and the similitude are sharply distinguished, so most notably in the statement: `` If the ( Holy ) Spirit is absent from the soul, such a man is indeed of an animal nature ; ;

* The Omotic language branch is the most controversial member of Afroasiatic, since the grammatical formatives which most linguists have given greatest weight in classifying languages in the family " are either absent or distinctly wobbly " ( Hayward 1995 ).

Even more divergent are American stir-fry dishes inspired by Chinese food, that may contain brown rice instead of white, or those with grated cheese ; milk products are almost always absent from traditional Chinese food.

* Centrioles, chloroplasts, ejectile organelles and inclusions are absent.

The disputed books, included in one canon but not in others, are often called the Biblical apocrypha, a term that is sometimes used specifically ( and possibly pejoratively in English ) to describe the books in the Catholic and Orthodox canons that are absent from the Jewish Masoretic Text ( also called the Tanakh or Miqra ) and most modern Protestant Bibles.

( The end result, though, is that both kings are absent from Babylon for the duration of their illnesses, since Nebuchadnezzar is " driven away from mankind.

These birds are absent from the southern tip of Florida and the highest elevations of the Appalachian Mountains, but are found in eastern Mexico and in Cuba.

From 1972 to 2006, there was a dramatic reduction in the number of feral honey bees in the US, which are now almost absent.

The tail is very short or absent, the ears are small or absent as well, and the external genitalia are hidden in slits or depressions in the body.