The Wanderer Key Facts

• Title: The Wanderer
• Author: Anonymous
• [The composer and compiler are anonymous, and within the manuscript the poem is untitled.]
• Manuscript Source: Preserved in the Exeter Book, a 10th-century anthology of Old English poetry
• Written: The poem predates the Exeter Book, likely written in the late 9th or early 10th century
• Lines: 115 lines
• Verse Form: Alliterative Verse
• Genre: Anglo-Saxon Elegy