is a place where one would cherish, a place of comfort and security. Now, picture one not having the protections that a home would require. During, the Anglo Saxon time period, home was desolate, isolated and often times lacked protection. Is it impossible to live a life at sea or in the woods? Readers experience the lonely and exile in the Anglo Saxon pomes translated by Ann Stafford in “The Wife’s Lament” and Charles W. Kennedy’s “The Wanderer” through the element of home. The wife and the wanderer…
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