Historical Info
The place the Anglo-Saxons were originally from.
Where was mainland Europe/Germany/Denmark/the Low Countries?
What is she still loves and misses him?
This individual is discussed at the end of “The Wanderer” when the speaker says, “and happy is the man who seeketh mercy from _________.”
Who is God?
The setting of "The Seafarer" at the beginning of the poem.
What is the sea?
This refers to repeated initial consonant sounds in stressed syllables.
What is alliteration?
A major value of the Anglo-Saxons.
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According to the poem, this individual forced the wife to leave her home for exile in the wilderness.
Who is her husband/lord?
What is ubi sunt?
At the end of the poem, the speaker reveals humankind's real home.
What is Heaven?
This refers to repeated vowel sounds in unrhymed, stressed syllables.
What is assonance?
Professional poets/storytellers who preserved history, legends, genealogy, and cultural values through oral poetry.
Who are scops?
The wife describes herself as living in this location.
Where is a den under an oak tree?
"No man may be considered wise" until this has happened.
What are many years have passed/the wanderer has aged?
Two sufferings the seafarer experiences on the sea.
What are hunger, cold, and sorrow?
A pause for breath in the middle of a line.
What is a caesura?
An Old English word for "fate," which shaped much of the Anglo-Saxon imagination and culture.
What is wyrd?
The wife describes her and her husband's relationship as initially "blithe," meaning this.
What is cheerful?
The speaker of "The Wanderer" primarily misses this in his life.
What is friendship/companionship?
What is adventure and excitement?
A two-word poetic renaming of a noun.
What is a kenning?
The reason many Old English poems feature religion strongly.
Who were the monks who rewrote/edited the poems?
The wife emphasizes this as her fate.
What is longing for her beloved in exile?
This is the reason the wanderer gives for leaving home.
What is to find a new lord he may serve, new companionship.
The kenning "whale's home" or "whale's path" refers to this thing.
A poem mourning the loss of someone or something.
What is an elegy?