Note 1140 — Chapter VII · THE EARLIEST DIFFERENTIATIONS OF POETRY
Reading edition
Kennings often read like riddles: so in Finnish, “contents of Wainamoinen’s milk-bowl,”—the sunshine. See, moreover, Scherer, Geschichte d. deutsch. Lit., pp. 7, 15; and R. M. Meyer, Altgerm. Poesie, p. 160.