one that will not be subject to the mutability of the land and sea as he has known”. John F. Vickrey continues Calder’s analysis of The Seafarer as a psychological allegory. Vickrey argued that the poem is an allegory for the life of a sinner through the metaphor of “the boat of the mind,” a metaphor used “to describe, through the imagery of a ship at sea, a person’s state of mind”. Language and Text Sylf John C. Pope and Stanley Greenfield have specifically debated the meaning of the word sylf (modern English: self, very, own), which appears in the first line of the poem. They also debate whether the seafarer’s earlier voyages were voluntary or involuntary. Anfloga and onwælweg In Medium Ævum, 1957 and 1959, G. V. Smithers drew attention to the following points in connection with the word anfloga, which occurs in line 62b of the poem: 1. The anfloga brings about the death of the person speaking. 2. It is characterized as eager and greedy. 3. It moves through the air. 4. It yells. As a result, Smithers concluded that it is therefore possible that the anfloga designates a valkyrie. Smithers also noted that onwælweg in line 63 can be translated as “on the death road”, if the original text is not emended to read on hwælweg, or “on the whale road [the sea]”. In the unique manuscript of The Seafarer the words are exceptionally clearly written onwæl weg. This may have some bearing on their interpretation. John R. Clark Hall, in the first edition of his Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 1894, translated wælweg as "fateful journey" and "way of slaughter", although he changed these translations in subsequent editions. The "death-way" reading was adopted by C.W.M. Grein in 1857: auf den Todesweg; by Henry Sweet in 1871: "on the path of death", although he changed his mind in 1888; and A.D. Horgan in 1979: "upon destruction's path". Other translators have almost all favoured "whale road". In A Short Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon Poetry, 1960, J.B. Bessinger Jr provided two translations of anfloga: 1. "attacking flier", p 3. 2. "solitary flier", p 4. "Solitary flier" is used in most translations. Unwearnum In the Angelsächsisches Glossar, by Heinrich Leo, published by Buchhandlung Des Waisenhauses, Halle, Germany, in 1872, unwearn is defined as an adjective, describing a person who is defenceless, vulnerable, unwary, unguarded or unprepared. This adjective appears in the dative case,