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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...
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  • Wendig "The Wanderer" (Old English poem), an Old English poem "The Wanderer", a 1726 poem by Richard Savage "The Wanderer" (Maykov poem), am 1867 poem by Apollon...
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    The Seafarer is an Old English poem giving a first-person account of a man alone on the sea. The poem consists of 124 lines, followed by the single word...
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    runes. The Old English rune poem, dated to the 8th or 9th century, has stanzas on 29 Anglo-Saxon runes. It stands alongside younger rune poems from Scandinavia...
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  • The Phoenix is an anonymous Old English poem. It is composed of 677 lines and is for the most part a translation and adaptation of the Latin poem De Ave...
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  • from the period, of which about 189 are considered major. In addition, some Old English text survives on stone structures and ornate objects. The poem Beowulf...
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    Ruin" shares the melancholic worldview of some of its contemporary poems such as The Seafarer, The Wanderer and Deor. But unlike "The Wanderer" and other...
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    The Dream of the Rood is one of the Christian poems in the corpus of Old English literature and an example of the genre of dream poetry. Like most Old...
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  • The Panther is a 74-line alliterative poem written in the Old English language which uses the image of a panther as an allegory for Christ's death and...
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    Cædmon's Hymn (redirect from Hymn (poem))
    Cædmon's Hymn is a short Old English poem attributed to Cædmon, a supposedly illiterate and unmusical cow-herder who was, according to the Northumbrian monk...
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  • "Pharaoh" is the editorial name given to a fragmentary, eight-line Old English poem on folio 122r of the later tenth-century anthology known as the Exeter Book...
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    Beowulf (redirect from Beowulf (poem))
    Beowulf (/ˈbeɪəwʊlf/; Old English: Bēowulf [ˈbeːowuɫf]) is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative...
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    "The Battle of Maldon" is the name given to an Old English poem of uncertain date celebrating the real Battle of Maldon of 991, at which an Anglo-Saxon...
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    Russian wandering (category Culture of the Russian Empire)
    of the Antichrist. This denomination was called stranniki ("wanderers") or beguny [ru] ("runaways"). The Wanderer, a 1867 poem by Apollon Maykov The Enchanted...
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  • Ubi sunt (category Articles containing Old English (ca. 450-1100)-language text)
    the Exeter Book, the largest surviving collection of Old English literature. The Wanderer most clearly exemplifies ubi sunt poetry in its use of the erotema...
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    Richard Wilbur. Modern English alliterative verse covers a wide range of styles and forms, ranging from poems in strict Old English or Old Norse meters, to...
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    Exodus is the title given to an Old English alliterative poem in the 10th century Junius manuscript (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 11). Exodus is...
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    Exeter Book (redirect from The Exeter Book)
    onion Answer: a Bible The Exeter Book contains the Old English poems known as the "elegies": "The Wanderer" (fol. 76b - fol. 78a); "The Seafarer" (fol. 81b...
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  • "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...
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  • Deor (category Old English poems)
    "Deor" (or "The Lament of Deor") is an Old English poem found on folio 100r–100v of the late-10th-century collection the Exeter Book. The poem consists of...
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    English, may have been composed as early as the 7th century. The earliest known English poem is a hymn on the creation; Bede attributes this to Cædmon (fl...
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  • Ezequiel Viñao (category Argentine emigrants to the United States)
    Arwen; The Wanderer (2005) for a cappella voices, commissioned by Chanticleer and Chicago a cappella, and titled for the Old English poem of the same name;...
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    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written...
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    Bede's Death Song (category Old English poetry)
    is the editorial name given to a five-line Old English poem, supposedly the final words of the Venerable Bede. It is, by far, the Old English poem that...
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    The Wanderer, The Lost Domain, Meaulnes: The Lost Domain, The Wanderer or The End of Youth, Le Grand Meaulnes: The Land of the Lost Contentment, The Lost...
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    Baldrs draumar (category 10th-century poems)
    Baldrs draumar (Old Norse: 'Baldr's dreams') or Vegtamskviða is an Eddic poem which appears in the manuscript AM 748 I 4to. It describes the myth of Baldr's...
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  • the Old English poem The Wanderer, while "Arise now, arise, Riders of Theoden" is based on the Finnesburg Fragment. In Shippey's opinion, these poems...
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    Vafþrúðnismál (Old Norse: "The Lay of Vafþrúðnir") is the third poem in the Poetic Edda. It is a conversation in verse form conducted initially between the Æsir...
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  • Wiglaf (category Articles containing Old English (ca. 450-1100)-language text)
    remainder"; Old English: Wīġlāf [ˈwiːjlɑːf]) is a character in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. He is the son of Weohstan, a Swede of the Wægmunding...
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    (1814), a long poem that became extremely popular during the nineteenth century. It features three central characters: the Wanderer, the Solitary, who...
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