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Summary. ‘The Wife’s Lament’ by Anonymous is a multi-layered poem in which a speaker expresses her deep sorrow over her husband’s departure. Depending on how one interprets the poem, that departure might refer to his death, his betrayal of her, or his travels to another country.
Analysis: "The Wife's Lament" is one of the most recognizable Anglo-Saxon elegies. Some scholars actually classify the piece as a Frauenlied, which is the German term for a woman's song.
The wife explains that her "lord"—her husband, and also possibly the lord of her people—left their community for a distant land. It's unclear if he was exiled, or left voluntarily. She decides to set off to find him, a "friendless exile" in her journey.
The Wife's Lament" or "The Wife's Complaint" is an Old English poem of 53 lines found on folio 115 of the Exeter Book and generally treated as an elegy in the manner of the German frauenlied, or "women's song".
We know that the Exeter Book dates back to somewhere between 960 and 990 CE. And we know "The Wife's Lament," as a poem found within this text, must be at least that old. This chronology gives us s...
"The Wife's Lament," like "The Wanderer," and "The Seafarer," is considered an elegy, a popular poetic genre in Anglo-Saxon literature dealing with themes of loss and grief. "The Wife's Lament" is especially noteworthy amongst these elegies because, well, it's really emotional—like, "ready the tissues and let the band play on because we're ...
18 Ιουν 2020 · The Wife’s Lament (the title is modern, not original) is a haunting and justly well-known poem, though difficulties of translation and interpretation make some aspects of it a mystery. It opens like several other Old English poems of lament, with a first-person speaker - in this case a woman, as the grammatical endings show - who promises to ...
