Back The Seafarer German Ο θαλασσοπόρος (ποίημα) Greek The Seafarer French De Seeman (Aldingelsk gedicht) Frisian The Seafarer Italian The Seafarer Dutch Sjøfareren NB The Seafarer Portuguese
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The Seafarer is an Old English poem giving a first-person account of a man alone on the sea. The poem consists of 124 lines, followed by the single word "Amen". It is recorded only at folios 81 verso – 83 recto[1] of the tenth-century[2] Exeter Book, one of the four surviving manuscripts of Old English poetry. It has most often, though not always, been categorised as an elegy, a poetic genre commonly assigned to a particular group of Old English poems that reflect on spiritual and earthly melancholy.
- ^ Chambers, R W; Förster; Flower (1933). The Exeter book of Old English poetry. London: Printed and pub. for the dean and chapter of Exeter cathedral by P. Lund, Humphries & co., ltd.
- ^ Fell, Christine (2007). "Perceptions of Transience". In Godden, Malcolm; Lapidge, Michael (eds.). The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature. Cambridge University Press. pp. 172–89. ISBN 978-0-521-37794-2.