A classic Norse kenningtation will always give four kennings


"Now for sea-steeds' trunks there is eagles' flight over land in store"

...  ships........warriors....i.e., the birds of prey are gathering, a battle is taking place.

—Havard the halt, quoted in Skaldskaparmal by Snorri Sturluson, translation Anthony Faulkes

Equation

  ship    steed 
       —— :: ——-  
       sea     road
      
       ship  = sea-steed   
       sea   = ship-road   
       steed = road-ship   
       road  = steed-sea 

to create the metaphors read the equation "across, then diagonal"
kenning haiku

Under the shifting hegemony of now this, now that science or art, the Game of games had developed into a kind of universal language through which the players could express values and set these in relation to one another.

edit: Glass Bead Game

 oldviolin wrote: 
mmm...Toast Posties

If you can't read your menu off of a plate then I can't do nothing for ya son!

 oldviolin wrote: 
is your uvula in an uproar again?

 Umberdog wrote: 

smoov like dat?

 oldslabsides wrote: 

what's with all the big words?

 swell_sailor wrote: 

I toasted it...post haste...

You guys freak us out.

 oldviolin wrote: 
What did you do to my post?

 oldviolin wrote: 
what about his pounds feet of torquemada?

 Manbird wrote: 

that's just rude...

 Manbird wrote: 

declare your specific gravity

 oldslabsides wrote: 
OV and cookie? Unlikely. 

 oldslabsides wrote: 

they never do...

 buzz wrote: 

Either that or just another deluded grave robber...

 Manbird wrote: 
I've just crapped in the shower. Will they notice?

 oldviolin wrote: 
in the hot steaming tapioca pudding fresh form the bum. 

 oldviolin wrote: 
would you be the Cryptic Keeper?

 swell_sailor wrote: 

now where would the crypt be in that?