MESA seafarer_07 The Seafarer: A Revised Hypertext Edition The Seafarer University of Saskatchewan Digital Research Centre Anonymous Owen, Corey Bath, Jon Dase, Kyle Manuscript Literature Manuscript Studies Poetry TRUE FALSE TRUE English No later than 975, 09uu,0975 Uncertain

The Seafarer in Manuscript

The Seafarer is extant only in this manuscript, Exeter Cathedral Library MS 3501, more commonly known as The Exeter Book.

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MÆG ic beme selfum soð gied wrecan siþas secgan huic geswinc dagum earfoð hwile oft þrowade bitre breost ceare gebiden hæbbe gecunnad in ceole cear selda fela atol yþa gewealc þær mec oft bigeat nearo niht wacoætnacan scefnan þōonn hebe clifum cnossað calde geþrungen wæron mine fet forste gebunden caldūum clommūum þærþa ceare seofedun hat ymb heortan hungor innan slat mere werges mod þæt se mon newat þe him onfoldan fægrost limpeð huic earm cearig iscealdne sæ winter wunade wræccan lastum wine mægum bidroren bihongen hrim gicelum hægl scurum fleag þær ic ne gehyrde butan hlimman sæ iscaldne wæg hwilūum ylfete song. dyde ic me to gomene ganetes hleoþor ond huilpan sweg fore hleahtor wera æw singende fore medo drince scormas þær stan clifu beotan þær him stearn oncwæð isig feþera ful oft þæt earn bigeal urig feþra nænig hleo mæga ea sceaftig ferð feran meahte forþon him gelsfeð lyt seþe ah lifes wyn gebiden inburgūum bealo siþa hwon wlonc ond win gal huic werig oft In brim lade bidan sceolde nap niht scua norþan sniwde hrim hrusan bond hægl feol on eorþan corna caldast forþon cnessað nu heortan geþohtas þæt ic hean



streamas sealt yþa gelac sylf cunnige monað modes lust mæla gehwylce ferð to feran þæt ic feor heonan el þeodigra eard gesece for þon nis þæs maod wlonc mon ofer eorþan ne his gifena þæs god ne in geoguþe to þæs hwæt ne in his dædūum to þæs deor ne him his dryhten to þæs hold. þæt he a his sæ fore sorge næbbe to hwon hine dryhten gedon wille nebiþ him to hearpan hyge. neto hring þege. ne to wife wyn. ne to worulde hyht. neymbe owiht elles nefne ymb yða gewealc. ac ahafað longunge seþe onlagu fundað. bearwas blostmum imað byrig fægriað wongas wlitigað woruld onetteð ealle þage moniað modes fusne sefan to siþe þam þe swa þenceð onflod wegas feor gewitað swylce geac monað geomran reorde singeð sumeres weard sorge beodeð bitter in breosthord þæt se beorn ne wat eft eadig secg hwæt þa sume dreogað þe þa wræc lastas wroost lecgað forþon nu min hyge hweorfeð ofer hreþer locan min mod sefa mid mere flode ofer hwæles eþel hweorfeð wide eorþan sceatas cymeð eft tome gifre grædig gielleð anfloga hweteð onwæl weg hreþer unwernum ofer holma gelagu forþon me hatran sind dryhtnes dreamas þōonn þis deade lif læne onlonde ic gelyfe no þæt him eorð welan ece stondeð simle þreora sum þinga gehwylce.



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