The Wanderer is an Old English poem that mourns a Germanic‐heroic past while still finding Christian consolation in the new post‐heroic age. Its central figure lives in exile. The poem survives in the Exeter Book, an Anglo‐Saxon manuscript dating to the second half of the tenth century. Though most regard The Wanderer as an elegy, the poem's genre is debated, as is the question of how many speakers narrate it and the extent to which Christian and secular concerns affect the poem's unity. Because The Wanderer , like other Old English poems, originates from an oral tradition, readers must consider that it makes meaning in different ways than do poems deriving from a solely written tradition.
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