Astrology is a method of predicting mundane events based upon the assumption that the celestial bodies—particularly the planets and the stars considered in their arbitrary combinations or configurations (called constellations)—in some way either determine or indicate changes in the sublunar world
Douglass spent most of the day struggling with the oxen & he broke the gate
Battle sweat<span> is a kenning for blood (</span><span>A </span>kenning<span> is a much-compressed form of metaphor)</span>. Personification (Often confused with kenning), on the other hand, is the giving of human characteristics to non-human/non-living things.