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Most Old English poetry, which is where kennings are found, is nothing like the Medieval Times version of the Middle Ages, with knights and ladies and jousting.

In Old Norse and Old English, kennings—compound words such as “bone-house” or “whale-road”—provided a metaphorical, poetic alternative to nouns.

She sang in improvised kennings, recited emphatic lyrics in English and Japanese, and moved between extremes of sound.

As Russell Banks, an American writer, notes: “The source, the need, for the form seems to me to be the same need that created Norse kennings, Zen koans, Sufi tales.”

The king is not the “cunning or the kenning” man, and his contempt for “logic-choppers” and “word-mongers” does not commend him to such as value the theoretical above the practical.