{"product_id":"old-english-shorter-poems-9780674053069","title":"Old English Shorter Poems","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe twenty-five poems and eleven metrical charms in this Old English volume offer tantalising insights into the mental landscape of the Anglo-Saxons. \u003cem\u003eThe Wanderer\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Seafarer\u003c\/em\u003e famously combine philosophical consolation with introspection to achieve a spiritual understanding of life as a journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Wife's Lament\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Husband's Message\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eWulf and Eadwacer\u003c\/em\u003e direct a subjective lyrical intensity on the perennial themes of love, separation, and the passion for vengeance. From suffering comes wisdom, and these poems find meaning in the loss of fortune and reputation, exile, and alienation. \"Woe is wondrously clinging; clouds glide,\" reads a stoic, matter-of-fact observation in \u003cem\u003eMaxims II\u003c\/em\u003e on nature's indifference to human suffering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnother form of wisdom emerges in the form of folk remedies, such as charms to treat stabbing pain, cysts, childbirth, and nightmares of witch-riding caused by a dwarf. The enigmatic dialogues of \u003cem\u003eSolomon and Saturn\u003c\/em\u003e combine scholarly erudition and proverbial wisdom. Learning of all kinds is celebrated, including the meaning of individual runes in \u003cem\u003eThe Rune Poem\u003c\/em\u003e and the catalog of legendary heroes in \u003cem\u003eWidsith\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is a welcome complement to the previously published DOML volume \u003cem\u003eOld English Shorter Poems, Volume I: Religious and Didactic\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471316566252,"sku":"9780674053069","price":71.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674053069-old-english-shorter-poems.jpg?v=1775238804","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/old-english-shorter-poems-9780674053069","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}