The Seafarer

by Anonymous

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Anonymous	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Gordon, Ida L.	Editor	main author	some editions	confirmed

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Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies

Methuen's Old English Library (A10)

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A Study Guide for Anonymous's "The Seafarer" by Mary K. Ruby

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960 (c.)

1960 (Ida L. Gordon edition)

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G. V. Smithers

Isidore of Seville

Augustine of Hippo, 354-430

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Preface
When my husband, Professor E. V. Gordon, died in 1938 he left an uncompleted draft of an edition of The Wanderer and The Seafarer, on which he had been working in collaboration with Professor J. R. R. Tolkien.

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THE MANUSCRIPT
The unique text of The Seafarer is on folios 81b-83a of the Exeter Book, presented to the Library of Exeter Cathedral by Bishop Leofric not later than 1072, and still preserved there.

MÆg ic be me sylfum  soðgied wrecan,
siþas seegan,  hu ic geswincdagum
earfoðhwile  oft þrowade,...

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