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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.
Prominent ubi sunt Anglo-Saxon poems are The Wanderer, Deor, The Ruin, and The Seafarer. These poems are all a part of a collection known as the Exeter Book, the largest surviving collection of Old English literature. [4] The Wanderer most clearly exemplifies ubi sunt poetry in its use of the erotema (the rhetorical question): Hwær cwom mearg?
[citation needed] The Exeter Book is the largest and perhaps oldest [3] [4] known manuscript of Old English literature, [2] [5] [6] [7] containing about a sixth of the Old English poetry that has survived. [2] [8] In 2016 UNESCO recognized the book as "the foundation volume of English literature, one of the world's principal cultural artefacts ...
The Old English poetry which has received the most attention deals with what has been termed the Germanic heroic past. Scholars suggest that Old English heroic poetry was handed down orally from generation to generation. [42] As Christianity began to appear, re-tellers often recast the tales of Christianity into the older heroic stories.
The Wanderer (Old English poem) Widsith; ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
"Widsith" (Old English: Wīdsīþ, "far-traveller", lit. "wide-journey"), also known as "The Traveller's Song", [1] is an Old English poem of 143 lines. It survives only in the Exeter Book ( pages 84v–87r ), a manuscript of Old English poetry compiled in the late-10th century, which contains approximately one-sixth of all surviving Old ...
Juliana" (Exeter Book, fol. 65b–76a), is one of the four signed Old English poems ascribed to the mysterious poet, Cynewulf, and is an account of the martyring of St. Juliana of Nicomedia. The one surviving manuscript, dated between 970 and 990, [1] is preserved in the Exeter Book between the poems The Phoenix and The Wanderer.
The Textuality of Old English Poetry. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-46549-4. OCLC 31044751. [4] "Stylistic Disjunctions in The Dream of the Rood", Anglo-Saxon England 1984 volume 13, 167–186. Her article "Anonymous polyphony and The Wanderer's textuality" was published in the journal Anglo-Saxon England, Volume 20 (December 1991) 99 ...