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- noun poetic The
sea (s), theocean (s).
Etymologies
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Examples
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For that came a remedy he grew under heaven, prospered in honors until every last one of the bordering nations beyond the whale-road had to heed him, pay him tribute.
Archive 2007-12-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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For that came a remedy he grew under heaven, prospered in honors until every last one of the bordering nations beyond the whale-road had to heed him, pay him tribute.
Dissertation Fragments II: Horizons of History Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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Perhaps some sort of kenning described the moon as ‘sailing’ and could be used as an alternative name for the moon in certain contexts, much as the sea could be called the ‘whale-road’.
Litha (June): the early English calendar Carla 2008
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Perhaps some sort of kenning described the moon as ‘sailing’ and could be used as an alternative name for the moon in certain contexts, much as the sea could be called the ‘whale-road’.
Archive 2008-06-01 Carla 2008
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They engaged in close study of its measure and meter, its heavy use of poetic "kennings" - evocative euphemisms describing the sea as the "whale-road" and so forth - and its preoccupation with Anglo-Saxon alliteration.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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They engaged in close study of its measure and meter, its heavy use of poetic "kennings" - evocative euphemisms describing the sea as the "whale-road" and so forth - and its preoccupation with Anglo-Saxon alliteration.
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Thus, in the Beowulf poem the ocean is the sea-path, whale-road, or swan-road.
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(“whale-road”) for sea, and they enlarged the literal narration by projecting it onto a figurative plane.
MOTIF HARRY LEVIN 1968
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Rune wheezed when Jack saidThe king sailed over the sea to battle instead ofThe giver of gold rings drove Njord’s swan upon the whale-road to a meeting of mail-coats and sword-tips.
The Sea of Trolls Nancy Farmer 2004
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Rune wheezed when Jack saidThe king sailed over the sea to battle instead ofThe giver of gold rings drove Njord’s swan upon the whale-road to a meeting of mail-coats and sword-tips.
The Sea of Trolls Nancy Farmer 2004
kensy commented on the word whale-road
used to describe the sea.
June 27, 2008