Heiti

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Heiti is an otherwise uncommon word used for stylistic purposes in Old Norse poetry. The difference between heiti and kenning is that kennings were poetic circumscriptions of the thing they were intended to describe whereas heiti is simply a rarely used word. Examples are, for instance, jór or fákur instead of hestur (horse) or mækir instead of sverð (sword).

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