The Wanderer (Old English poem)
| The Wanderer | |
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First page of The Wanderer from the Exeter Book | |
| Author(s) | Unknown |
| Language | Old English |
| Date | Impossible to determine |
| Provenance | Exeter Book |
| Genre | Elegy |
| Verse form | Alliterative verse |
| Length | c. 115 lines |
| Personages | The narrator of the "wise man"'s speech, and the "wise man", presumably the "Wanderer" himself. |
| Text | The Wanderer at Wikisource |
The Wanderer is an Old English poem preserved only in an anthology known as the Exeter Book. It comprises 115 lines of alliterative verse. As is often the case with Anglo-Saxon verse, the composer and compiler are anonymous, and within the manuscript the poem is untitled.