The narrator of this poem explains how the Judgment Day will begin (with floods) and continues with some detailed description that is focused on how individual souls will fare on that day.
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[one of my students is turning out to be very talented at reading Old English, so I hope to post a recording of her reading “The Wife’s Lament” and “Wulf and Eadwacer,” so that the poems can be in a female voice as well]. The poem tells the story of a woman who has been separated from her husband due to the plotting of his kinsmen. Her husband (lord) has ordered her to live in an earth-cave under an oak tree. She weeps for her exile and her hardship. Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Chalice.” Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Crows” (at least it is some kind of birds). Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Battering-ram.” Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Pen (and three fingers holding it).” Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Bookcase.” Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Chrismal,” “paten,” or “chalice.” Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Book-moth.” Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Lot with his two daughters and their sons.” Riddles 46 and 48 are written as one riddle in the manuscript. Podcast: Play in new window | Download |
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