indicating "attendant circumstances", as unwearnum, only twice in the entire corpus of Anglo-Saxon literature: in The Seafarer, line 63; and in Beowulf, line 741. In both cases it can be reasonably understood in the meaning provided by Leo, who makes specific reference to The Seafarer. However, it has very frequently been translated as “irresistibly” or “without hindrance”. Editions and translations Editions George P. Krapp and Elliot V.K. Dobbie produced an edition of the Exeter Book, containing The Seafarer, in the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records in 1936. Ida L. Gordon produced the first modern scholarly edition solely dedicated to the poem in 1960. Anne L. Klinck included the poem in her compendium edition of Old English elegies in 1992. In 2000 Bernard J. Muir produced a revised second edition of The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry, first published in 1994 by the Exeter University Press, in two volumes, which includes text and commentary on The Seafarer. It is included in the full facsimile of the Exeter Book by R. W. Chambers, Max Förster and Robin Flower (1933), where its folio pages are numbered 81 verso – 83 recto. List of translations The Seafarer has been translated many times by numerous scholars, poets, and other writers, with the first English translation by Benjamin Thorpe in 1842. Between 1842 and 2000 over 60 different versions, in eight languages, have been recorded. The translations fall along a scale between scholarly and poetic, best described by John Dryden as noted in The Word Exchange anthology of Old English poetry: ‘metaphrase’, or a crib; ‘paraphrase’, or ‘translation with latitude’, allowing the translator to keep the original author in view while altering words, but not sense; and ‘imitation’, which 'departs from words and sense, sometimes writing as the author would have done had she lived in the time and place of the reader’. . . . . He writes the poem as a dialogue between an Old and Young Man. He ends at l. 64a, ‘ofer holma gelagu’ with no indication on the page of remaining lines. . The poem is translated in its entirety, with a brief explanatory note on different theories. . . Introduction notes the book is designed to "meet the needs of that ever-increasing body of students who cannot read the poems in their original form, but who wish nevertheless to enjoy to some extent the heritage of verse which our early English