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.