- ver-fákr
- m. a sea-steed, i. e. a ship, Lex. Poët.: in prose ironic., but misapplied in Fbr. 156; the word is only poët.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.
Kenning — A kenning (Old Norse kenning [cʰɛnːiŋg] , Modern Icelandic pronunciation [cʰɛnːiŋk] ) is a circumlocution used instead of an ordinary noun in Old Norse and later Icelandic poetry. For example, Old Norse poets might replace sverð , the regular… … Wikipedia