It is in vain that one looks for realistic descriptions of landscapes in skaldic poetry. There is no interest in the landscapes where the actions which are the only concerns of this genre take place. However, landscape features such as mountains, the sea, trees, caves or the sky are ...
Examples are drawn from skaldic poetry since this genre presupposes a metaphorical thinking which differs from that found in classical aesthetics. The skaldic metaphors in question appear to demand a violation of the principles of metaphorical constraint put forth in conceptual integration theory (...