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ELLENFRITH'S SONG
University of West Florida
Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida
2011
Abstract
Ellenfrith's Song vitalizes the wife of the Old English poem "The Wife's Lament" who relates the thoughts of a woman exiled by her husband to live alone in a cave under an oak tree, but the poem gives no details of the circumstances that sentenced her to exile. Chapter One, "Exile," explores the betrayal by the trusted friend who causes the wife to be exiled and looks at her feelings of loneliness and alienation upon realizing how alone she is in the cave. Chapter Two, "First Sighting," begins in the cave, but through a flashback, the wife remembers how she first met her husband and how she became engaged to the man who has doomed her to a life in exile. Chapter Three, "Preparations and Marriage," relates the activities that probably took place in preparation for an Anglo-Saxon marriage and finishes with the exchange of gifts and the wedding vows that might have been said at an actual Anglo-Saxon marriage. After the ceremony, the bride says goodbye to her family and leaves with her husband for her new home, her new family, and her new life with him.
Details
- Title
- ELLENFRITH'S SONG
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Publisher
- University of West Florida
- Format
- text
- Copyright
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
- Identifiers
- 99380090748906600
- Academic Unit
- English
- Language
- English
- Awarding Institution
- University of West Florida; Master of Arts (MA)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida