kenning

• The street called Barbican derived its name, according to Stow, from the fact that at one time there had stood there “a burgh-kenning , or watch-tower of the city, called in some language a barbican ;” and modern etymologists perfect Stow's observation by tracing the name, through the mediaeval Latin barbacana , to the Persian bala khaneh , meaning “upper chamber,” whence our less corrupt form balcony , actually identical with barbican. —  The Life of John Milton Vol. 3 1643-1649
• The earliest Norse references which can be approximately dated are in the Skald Bragi (first half of the ninth century), who knew all three stories: the Hild and Ermanric tales he gives in outline; his only reference to the Volsungs is a kenning, "the Volsungs' drink," for serpent. —  The Edda, Volume 2 The Heroic Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13
• (Page 17 The word hrodhrbadhm (which I have given as "branch of fame") would perhaps be more accurately translated "tree of fame," which Gering explains as a kenning for Baldr. —  The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12
• Drumshourloch, no kenning, nor dreaming a word about it? —  Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete
• I could set her on again without this blood-sucker kenning what I am doing. —  The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete

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