ofljóst

Old Norse

Etymology

of- (“too much, excessively”) +‎ ljóss (“clear”); literally "too clear", an ironic designation.

Examples
Guðrún Nordal, Tools of Literacy, page 205, quotes a relatively simple example: "[A kenning [e.g. 'forest of the head'] may designate] hár 'hair,' whose homophone Hár denotes Òðinn."

Adjective

ofljóst

1.  (of a phrase in a poem) being a kenning for something which is synonymous or homophonous with something else which is homophonous or synonymous with the intended morpheme, word, or phrase

Further reading

• Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “ofljóst”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press