In an old monastery British experts found a piece of literature entitled "The Wanderer." The piece was written in Latin, so the British assumed it was from the medieval period. When Virginia Jones studied it, she was convinced it was not from the medieval period, but from the Anglo-Saxon period. After evaluating "The Wanderer" my team from Oxford and I agree with Dr. Jones. We found many Anglo-Saxon ideas (or themes) and several literary techniques used in the Anglo-Saxon period as well.

Many Anglo-Saxon themes were used. One example is the combination of Christian and pagan ideas. An example of a pagan idea from the text is "the fates of men." A Christian idea might be "Good man is he when guardith his faith." An Anglo-Saxon theme we also saw used was the me

Due to the Anglo-Saxon literary techniques and themes/ideas used in this poem, it is our conclusion that this poem is indeed from the Anglo-Saxon period. The reason for the Latin writing could have been from a monk translating the Old English to Latin. Dr. Jones is most definitely accurate in her judgment that this poem is not from the Medieval period that the British explorers first presumed.

ad hall for the center of life. This is expressed by the quotations, searching for another mead hall. "Dreams of hall men," The dealing of treasure... when his lord had welcome to wassail and feast." A depressing elegiac mood was also shown in this piece. An example from the text is the constant misery, woe over his lord and his companion's deaths, wretchedness of the traveling sea. A direct quote showing this example is "day by day all this

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