These concepts are divided into the simple, tvikent, or "double," and rekit, or "extended," variants in a text partially concerned with these concepts titled the Hattatal.
The major work that describes the categories of these concepts distinguishes between those of them which originate from incidental characteristics, and the sann variety, which originate from essences. These concepts are divided into the simple, tvikent, or "double," and rekit, or "extended," variants in a text partially concerned with these concepts titled the Hattatal. A more famous text describing these distinguishes them from heiti, or synonyms. That work is framed as a conversation between Aegir, who asks about the origins of these concepts and their classification, and Bragi, who explains their origin and proceeds to list many examples of these concepts, such as those relating to fire, gold, and Heimdall. Classified in a chapter of the Prose Edda called the Skaldskaparmal and including examples such as "all-father" for Odin, for 10 points, identify these devices of skaldic poetry, a kind of circumlocutory reference.
The major work that describes the categories of these concepts distinguishes between those of them which originate from incidental characteristics, and the sann variety, which originate from essences.
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