Saturday, December 1, 2018

Can you please give me some good kennings for an airplane? Can you please give me some good kennings for an airplane?

This
is a cool question. Kennings are a lot of fun to read and create. We don't see too many kennings
in modern English. They are more specific to Old English and Old Norse poetry. Ais a
metaphorical compound word or phrase that is used in place of a more concrete single word noun.
For example, a boat could be called a "wave traveler" or a "sea steed." For
an airplane, I like "air beast." You could easily modify the previous boat examples to
work for an airplane. "Wind traveler" and "sky steed" both sound way more
descriptive than "jet." "Sky streaker" isn't bad because of the contrails
that they leave at high altitudes. So far, the kennings listed all make an airplane sound more
glorious; however, you can use a kenning to make an airplane (specifically an airliner) sound
quite boring"sky bus."

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