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El Zahir.
Fishburn and Hughes: "A metaphor for blood used in the Norse Eddas: an example of a kenning, a type of condensed metaphor found in Old Norse sagas. A kenning is always a compound consisting of two nouns, a head noun and a modifying noun, neither of which refers directly to the object designated, the comparison being usually by attributive association. Other kennings for blood are 'dew of wounds' or 'dew of sorrow'. Borges wrote extensively on kennings in Etern. (43- 67) and Lit. germ. (141-151)." (188-89)