The Seafarer

a-stem allegory alliteration angelsächsische Anglia Beibl Anglo-Saxon appears Beow Beowulf bigeat bird of lament Columbanus conj cuckoo dead death Dr Sisam Dryhten eager early Christian earth edition elegiac emendation eorpan Exeter Book expression G. V. Smithers Gaul gedon genre glory Grein H. M. CHADWICK hafað half-line heavenly hine homeless wanderer homiletic theme hwon hyge Ifor Williams interpretation joys Kershaw land Latin longunge Lord lyric lyric-elegy mæg meaning metaphor Migne motif nearon ocean OE poetry ofer Old English homilies Old English Poetry Old Welsh origin p.pt parallels passage Peah peregrinus plaints poem poet poetic ponne prep pres probably pron reference ruined hall seafaring theme Seefahrer sense Sieper sorrow suggests symbolic theme of exile tiddege tradition trans translated ubi sunt Venantius Fortunatus verb verse West Saxon Wife's Lament þæt