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But for practical purposes, there is little point in including a lemma like hwālrād (a kenning, `whale-road,' for sea ) if only an infinitesimal portion of the population reads Beowulf or an article about it in a recondite learned journal.
An Old Icelandic kenning, hvarm-skógr , literally, eye-woods, means eyelashes, as if implying that the lashes resemble trees lined up along the eyelid.