Road warrior Sentence Examples

If you spend any time around a group of bikers, you're bound to hear some biker slang. Many riders band together to form motorcycle clubs. These provide great ways to build camaraderie, enjoy the open road or give back to the local community. Some are formalized, while others involve a group of friends who cruise down the highway. There are also solo riders, known as lone wolves, who like the quiet and ease of riding alone. Solo or in groups, bikers have a zest for life and a unique lingo all their own.

The Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse traditions have a word for a compound expression with a metaphorical meaning: kenning. Simply put, in poetry, a kenning is when you take two words and combine them as a mild translation or metaphor for something else.

So, as you’re sitting by the fire one night, enjoying an anthology of Scandinavian poetry, you might come across poem about five brave men aboard a wave-floater (a ship). Kennings were often used to describe everyday people, animals, and objects.

To no surprise, they were used to brighten up an author’s prose. Why say “a ship” when you can use something more illustrious like “wave floater”? Let’s enjoy further examples of kenning.