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‘The Wanderer’ is a long Old English poem in which the speaker details the life and struggles of a wanderer. In the first part of this piece, the speaker describes a wanderer, someone who lost everything that meant something to him. He’s lost his lord, his home, his kinsmen, and more.
The Wanderer. “How often the lone-dweller anticipates some sign, this Measurer’s mercy — must always must— mind-caring, along the ocean’s windings, stirring rime-chill seas, hands as oars many long whiles, treading the tracks of exile— the way of the world an open book always.” (1–5)
2 Οκτ 2023 · The Wanderer is an Anglo-Saxon poem that dates back to the 10th century and is found in the Exeter Book. The poem is one of the most significant pieces of literature in Old English, and it has been studied and analyzed by scholars for many years.
Summary. Questions & Answers. The Wanderer. PDF Cite. Essentially a monologue set within a frame, this poem of 115 lines creates two personae—the anonymous author who gives a brief introduction...
The Wanderer is an Old English poem preserved only in an anthology known as the Exeter Book. It comprises 115 lines of alliterative verse. As is often the case with Anglo-Saxon verse, the composer and compiler are anonymous, and within the manuscript the poem is untitled.
'oft him anhaga' - The Old English word oft usually means 'often, but in poetry it can also mean 'always'. The Wanderer's sorrows may dominate his every moment. Both anhaga and anhoga (40) may have the weakened sense 'one who is alone'. There may be the Christian implication 'hermit' - the Lambeth Psalter glosses solitarius as anhoga oÝÝe ...
The Wanderer. Always the one alone longs for mercy, Maker’s mildness, though, troubled in mind, across the ocean-ways he has long been forced to stir with his hands the frost-cold sea, and walk in exile’s paths.
