Kennings

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Kennings

• Can you guess what these poems are talking about?

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• Night prowlerMidnight HowlerMeat hunterAir
  snifferHackle raiserThroat ripper

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• Answer a wolf

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• Fish scarerBody tearerSea hunterLimb
  cruncherFish scofferBone cougherSharp
  gnasherSkull smasher

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• Answer a shark

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• Body protecterEnemy deflecterCity saverLife
  claimerPeople holder

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• Answer a castle

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• A boat sinkerA wave bringerA people
  swallowerA hair holder

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• Answer the sea

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• A tree-stomperA plant-eaterA trunk-washerA
  tusk-owner

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• Answer an elephant

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• A Meat-eater A prey-pouncherA
  family-protectorA night-watcherA mane-cleaner

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• Answer a lion

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• A man-eaterA flame-throwerA tree-stomperA
  body-stealerA meat-eaterA neck ripper

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• Answer a dinosaur

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• Egg-layerNest-builderInsect-catcherWorld
  traveller

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• Answer the swallow