The Exeter Texts In The Wanderer, And The Wife's Lament
The Exeter Texts
(A discussion of different kinds of viking texts.) The Exeter consists of The Seafarer, The Wanderer, and The Wife’s Lament. These stories are different collections of viking texts, they begin to show different sides of these people. During this time period, people craved adventure, glory, and women craved love. These stories are about anglo saxons and their adventures that they crave everyday, they live their lives everyday as if it were their last, they spend everyday in their triumph. They are the perfect example of a great warrior, they give guts, glory, and hard work everyday for themselves and especially for their people back home. Starting with the The Seafarer, this anglo saxon hates a boring life - he needs adventure, even if it causes him pain. He begins to say that he has no love, that is why he wants to spend his time on the ocean. For him, a storm is a symbol of life, and he wants to spend his life on the water with adventure everyday. Even though the loneliness, the cold, and hard work is painful, he will continue this lifestyle. He doesn’t want to be like a person back at home, they are soft, not tough. He wants to be that mighty warrior, he spends most of his time alone and in his thoughts thinking about the more adventurous times that he has to come. All the pain that he goes through on a day to day basis, we only appreciate the pain that is our own. The people back home don’t know what kind of pain that they go through out on the water. Our thoughts should turn to where our home is. In The Wanderer, is a lonely viking who writes to himself. He writes to himself because he has no one to tell, writing to himself helps him workout all the things that are going on in his life because he is on his own. He is on an adventure by himself because his lord died, he is now searching for another life on this journey. To him, you have to go through the hard times to learn through life, it is all about living and learning. The Wanderer
(A discussion of different kinds of viking texts.) The Exeter consists of The Seafarer, The Wanderer, and The Wife’s Lament. These stories are different collections of viking texts, they begin to show different sides of these people. During this time period, people craved adventure, glory, and women craved love. These stories are about anglo saxons and their adventures that they crave everyday, they live their lives everyday as if it were their last, they spend everyday in their triumph. They are the perfect example of a great warrior, they give guts, glory, and hard work everyday for themselves and especially for their people back home. Starting with the The Seafarer, this anglo saxon hates a boring life - he needs adventure, even if it causes him pain. He begins to say that he has no love, that is why he wants to spend his time on the ocean. For him, a storm is a symbol of life, and he wants to spend his life on the water with adventure everyday. Even though the loneliness, the cold, and hard work is painful, he will continue this lifestyle. He doesn’t want to be like a person back at home, they are soft, not tough. He wants to be that mighty warrior, he spends most of his time alone and in his thoughts thinking about the more adventurous times that he has to come. All the pain that he goes through on a day to day basis, we only appreciate the pain that is our own. The people back home don’t know what kind of pain that they go through out on the water. Our thoughts should turn to where our home is. In The Wanderer, is a lonely viking who writes to himself. He writes to himself because he has no one to tell, writing to himself helps him workout all the things that are going on in his life because he is on his own. He is on an adventure by himself because his lord died, he is now searching for another life on this journey. To him, you have to go through the hard times to learn through life, it is all about living and learning. The Wanderer