The Seafarer Key Facts

• Title: The Seafarer
• Author: Anonymous
• [The Seafarer is an Old English poem giving a first-person account of a man alone on the sea.]
• Manuscript Source: Preserved in the Exeter Book, a 10th-century anthology of Old English poetry
• Lines: 124 lines, followed by a single word “Amen”
• Rhyme: Alliterative rhyme scheme
• Genre: Anglo-Saxon Elegy