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posted on 2022-12-14, 12:46authored byWoruldhord Project Team
This is a translation of the first nineteen lines of the Old English poem The Seafarer; I chose this section as it forms a fairly coherent whole but still gives a strong sense of the atmosphere of the poem.
History
Date Created
14/10/2010
Temporal Coverage
2000-2010
Creator
Translated by Eleanor Crossman from a text edited by Richard Hamer (in 'A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse', (London: Faber and Faber, 1970, pp. 184-195). Eleanor has an honours MA in Mediaeval History and is a poet and published writer.