The Wanderer is an elegiac piece of poetry preserved in the extant Exeter manuscript which is purports the lament of a solitary man who had once been happy under the protection of his loved lord but after his lord’s death is confronted with bitter frozen waves and winter cold. The thought of his…
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Anglo Saxon Literature
Anglo-Saxon English Literature Analysis
The re-Christianizing of England by Celtic missionaries and St. Augustine brought the wealth of a new kind of…
Epic Poetry Beowulf: Historical Value
An epic is supposed to serve as the mouthpiece of the age depicted in it or a historic document of the nation it…