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Keywords: Poetic, Steed, Metaphor, Norse, Oar
The limit of vision at sea, being a distance of about twenty miles.
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conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry
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a conventional metaphor that can be used in place of noun
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a form of periphrasis in which a metaphor is substituted for a simple term
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