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Kennings and Alliteration

Kennings and Alliteration. Tools of the scops. Alliteration. Anglo-Saxon poets depended on a few different techniques in order to remember the lines of a poem or story. Alliteration and kenning. Alliteration – the repetition of consonant sounds in words placed close to one another.

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Kennings and Alliteration

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  1. Kennings and Alliteration Tools of the scops

  2. Alliteration • Anglo-Saxon poets depended on a few different techniques in order to remember the lines of a poem or story. • Alliteration and kenning. • Alliteration –the repetition of consonant sounds in words placed close to one another.

  3. Examples of Alliteration • (S)ally (s)old (s)ea (s)hells by the (s)ea (s)hore. • Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. • It’s too bad Tommy took the tall truck to town. *Alliteration makes things easier to memorize.

  4. EXERCISE Break into groups. Compete to see which group can come up with the most!

  5. The Metaphor and Compound Words • Metaphor – a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that seem to be unlike. Metaphors do not use connecting words such as like. • Compound Word – a word made up of two or more words.

  6. Kenning • A special metaphor made of compound words. • Important tool in Anglo-Saxon literature. • Modern examples: pencil-pusher, gas guzzler, and head-hunter.

  7. Early Kennings • Early kennings were compound words formed from two common nouns. • Sky-candle (sun), battle-dew (blood), whale-road (sea)

  8. Growth of the Kenning • Kennings became more elaborate. • Compound adjectives began to join compound nouns. • Foamy-throated ship, foamy-throated sea-stallion, foamy-throated stallion of the whale road.

  9. Kennings in Translation • Kennings are usually written in three different ways: • Hyphenated (sky-candle) • Prepositional phrase (wolf of wounds) • Possessives (the sword’s tree)

  10. Purpose • Extend vocabulary • Aided in memorization. Ready-made phrases made it easy and allowed poets time to think during freestyle

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