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The Seafarer. 1960. New York: Appleton, 1966 (originally published in Methuen's Old English Library; Pope, John C., ed. Seven Old English Poems. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 1981. ... Hyperlinks to annotations are added in-line in the text, in bolded brackets. See also my notes on The Seafarer.
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Translation Seafarer Old English Altenglisch Neuenglisch ... If this translation did help you in any way please let us know. ... The Seafarer 2000-02-05 May I by myself sing (work) a true song, about my voyages, how I in hard days a hard time often suffered, bitter sorrows (breast cares) have endured, 5 known (experienced)
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Wikipedia introduces it well: The Seafarer is an Old English poem. Among the most interesting poems included ... Pound himself clearly followed this translation, by Lola LaMotte Iddings, from 1902, which I'm quoting entire, because it includes the last lines of the original that Pound omitted (for reasons I'm unaware of).
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The Seafarer (poem) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Seafarer is an Old English poem recorded in the Exeter Book, one of the four surviving manuscripts of Old English poetry. It is 124 lines and is commonly referred to as an elegy, a poem that mo...
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Mæg ic be me sylfum soðgied wrecan, ... siþas secgan, hu ic geswincdagum ... Show text and translation; Show word order translation guides; Change verse line numbering...
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In the following translation of The Seafarer I have attempted to lend my version the aura of Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse with its constant and steady rhythm that creates a sense of coherence in each line and thus makes the poem easier to grasp for its audience.
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With this translation I have tried to stay as close to the original text and attempted to preserve the grammar, as far as possible. However I took great liberty in This helped me to blend kennings and appositions into a fluent language, as well as creating the tone of a solemn and forceful speech of the Seafarer.
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; The Seafarer: A Translation ... In my "Seafarer" working, I played considerably with formal attributes I had previously neglected, and I did so in ways (such as altered and extended alliteration, and assonance) not necessarily present in the original text, just as I allowed myself some of the usual liberties in...
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