The Wife's Lament Key Facts
Published: Dec 31, 2024
Updated: Apr 18, 2026
The Wife's Lament Key Facts
- Title: The Wife’s Lament
- Poet: Anonymous
- [The poem The Wife’s Lament is a first-person monologue by a wife who shares her sorrowful story of exile and separation from her husband.]
- Manuscript Source: Preserved in the Exeter Book, a 10th-century anthology of Old English poetry
- Lines: 53 lines
- Genre: Elegy in the manner of the German frauenlied, or "women's song"