Wulf and Eadwacer
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wulf-and-eadwacer-177-13274113
title:
Wulf and Eadwacer
text:
"Wulf and Eadwacer" is an Old English poem in alliterative verse of famously difficult interpretation. It has been variously characterised, (modernly) as an elegy, (historically) as a riddle, and as a song or ballad with refrain. The poem is narrated in the first person, most likely with a woman's voice. Because the audience is given so little information about her situation, some scholars argue the story was well-known, and that the unnamed speaker corresponds to named figures from other storie
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Old English poem
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulf_and_Eadwacer
date created:
2004-07-19T16:12:13Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T03:36:01Z
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