Exeter Book, one of the four surviving manuscripts of Old English poetry. For several centuries the book was neglected and abused. few ppl could read written old English With the rise of the Anglo Saxon in the 19th century scholars began to take interests in the Exeter It has most often, though not always, been categorized as an elegy, a poetic genre commonly assigned to a particular group of Old English poems that reflect on spiritual and earthly melancholy. The Seafarer is an Old English poem giving a first-person account of a man alone on the sea.
