The Seafarer
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Edition, with contextual introduction, notes, glossary and bibliography, of the poem from the Exeter Book.Tags
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- Original publication date
- 960 (c.) (c.); 1960 (Ida L. Gordon edition) (Ida L. Gordon edition)
- People/Characters
- 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.... (show all) Tolkien.
Introduction
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,... - Original language
- Old English
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- Old English, English, Multiple languages
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