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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.
[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 ...
In addition, some Old English text survives on stone structures and ornate objects. [6] The poem Beowulf, which often begins the traditional canon of English literature, is the most famous work of Old English literature. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle has also proven significant for historical study, preserving a chronology of early English history.
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?
Mentions of wyrd in Old English literature include The Wanderer, "Wyrd bið ful aræd" ('Fate remains wholly inexorable') and Beowulf, "Gæð a wyrd swa hio scel!" ('Fate goes ever as she shall!'). In The Wanderer, wyrd is irrepressible and relentless. She or it "snatches the earls away from the joys of life," and "the wearied mind of man ...
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