P5 wrote some amazing Kennings poems. The Vikings used kennings in poetry to describe ordinary things in an extraordinary way. A kenning is a way of describing something without ever saying what it is. It is like a ‘mini riddle’.
The word kenning comes from a Viking phrase which means: “to express a thing in terms of another.”
e.g. foot-warmer to describe a sock or sky-scraper to describe a tall building
