Listened to Chapter 7: The Old English Worldview from The History of the English Language, 2nd Edition by Seth Lerer from The Great Courses

The focus of this lecture is the loan words that came into the Germanic languages during the continental and insular periods of borrowing. You'll also see how the first known poet in English, Caedmon, used the resources of his vocabulary and his literary inheritance to give vernacular expression to new Christian concepts.

Compounding
Four kinds
Determinitive compounding

bone locker
middle Earth (Tolkien)

Kenning noun metaphor that exppresses a familiar idea

road of the whale – the sea
road of the swan
bath of the gannett
sea steed – ship

repetitive compounding
going about weaver – the swift moving one – spider in OE

Caedmon’s Hymn

West Saxon version
Known as the first English poem