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In Beowulf, it is common to use metaphors to express knowledge. This comes from a Norwegian word, "kenna," which means to know or understand. Instead of using one word to describe something, a figurative expression is used. For example, "hildeswat" means "war-sweat" or "blood," "hronrad" means "whale-path" or "sea," and "heofoneswynne" means "sky-joy" or "dawn.

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Divan literature is a type of literature that is still important today, and we still use it in our lives. We haven't given up on it either.

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Sleep of the sword" is a phrase that means "death" instead of saying the word "death" directly. This is an example of using indirect language instead of saying something directly. (This phrase is used in the poem Beowulf).

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A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things. In Scandinavian and English poetry, a metaphor was used to describe Odin and Thor as warriors who fought against the wolf and the serpent. It was also used to mean "war only".

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A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things without using the words "like" or "as" to make the comparison. It is a way of describing something by saying it is something else.

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(see: silk road)

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