A detail of the first page of the Beowulf manuscript, showing the words "ofer hron rade", i.e. "over the whale's road (=sea)". It is an example of an Old English stylistic device, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kenning" class="extiw" title="en:kenning">en:kenning</a>.
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2006-06-09
author unknown, detail of a medieval manuscript