The Wanderer is an Old English poem preserved only in an anthology, known as the Exeter Book. The speaker describes someone who lost everything that meant something to him, and had to start all over again.

"But this world - every day falls to dust. No man is wise until he lives many

winters in the kingdom of the world." - The Wanderer

Read by: John Mydrim Ballantyne Davies

Poem

The Wanderer

"The Wanderer" was written in the 10th century AD by an anonymous poet in Old English, and is today only preserved in an anthology, known as the Exeter Book. The date the poem was written, and by whom, is still impossible to determine to this day.

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