<P> The Wanderer conveys the meditations of a solitary exile on his past happiness as a member of his lord 's band of retainers , his present hardships and the values of forbearance and faith in the heavenly Lord . The warrior is identified as eardstapa ( line 6a ) , usually translated as `` wanderer '' ( from eard meaning ' earth ' or ' land ' , and steppan , meaning ' to step ' ) , who roams the cold seas and walks `` paths of exile '' ( wræclastas ) . He remembers the days when , as a young man , he served his lord , feasted together with comrades , and received precious gifts from the lord . Yet fate ( wyrd ) turned against him when he lost his lord , kinsmen and comrades in battle -- they were defending their homeland against an attack -- and he was driven into exile . Some readings of the poem see the wanderer as progressing through three phases ; first as the anhoga ( solitary man ) who dwells on the deaths of other warriors and the funeral of his lord , then as the modcearig man ( man troubled in mind ) who meditates on past hardships and on the fact that mass killings have been innumerable in history , and finally as the snottor on mode ( man wise in mind ) who has come to understand that life is full of hardships , impermanence , and suffering , and that stability only resides with God . Other readings accept the general statement that the exile does come to understand human history , his own included , in philosophical terms , but would point out that the poem has elements in common with `` The Battle of Maldon '' , a poem about a battle in which an Anglo - Saxon troop was defeated by Viking invaders . </P>
<P> The Wanderer conveys the meditations of a solitary exile on his past happiness as a member of his lord 's band of retainers , his present hardships and the values of forbearance and faith in the heavenly Lord . The warrior is identified as eardstapa ( line 6a ) , usually translated as `` wanderer '' ( from eard meaning ' earth ' or ' land ' , and steppan , meaning ' to step ' ) , who roams the cold seas and walks `` paths of exile '' ( wræclastas ) . He remembers the days when , as a young man , he served his lord , feasted together with comrades , and received precious gifts from the lord . Yet fate ( wyrd ) turned against him when he lost his lord , kinsmen and comrades in battle -- they were defending their homeland against an attack -- and he was driven into exile . Some readings of the poem see the wanderer as progressing through three phases ; first as the anhoga ( solitary man ) who dwells on the deaths of other warriors and the funeral of his lord , then as the modcearig man ( man troubled in mind ) who meditates on past hardships and on the fact that mass killings have been innumerable in history , and finally as the snottor on mode ( man wise in mind ) who has come to understand that life is full of hardships , impermanence , and suffering , and that stability only resides with God . Other readings accept the general statement that the exile does come to understand human history , his own included , in philosophical terms , but would point out that the poem has elements in common with `` The Battle of Maldon '' , a poem about a battle in which an Anglo - Saxon troop was defeated by Viking invaders . </P>
who is the wanderer and what happened to him
who is the wanderer and what happened to him
eardstapa ( line 6a ) , usually translated as `` wanderer '' ( from eard meaning ' earth ' or ' land ' , and steppan , meaning ' to step ' ) , who roams the cold seas and walks `` paths of exile '' ( wræclastas ) . He remembers the days when , as a young man , he served his lord , feasted together with comrades , and received precious gifts from the lord . Yet fate ( wyrd ) turned against him when he lost his lord , kinsmen and comrades in battle -- they were defending their homeland against an attack -- and he was driven into exile
eardstapa ( line 6a ) , usually translated as `` wanderer '' ( from eard meaning ' earth ' or ' land ' , and steppan , meaning ' to step ' ) , who roams the cold seas and walks `` paths of exile '' ( wræclastas ) . He remembers the days when , as a young man , he served his lord , feasted together with comrades , and received precious gifts from the lord . Yet fate ( wyrd ) turned against him when he lost his lord , kinsmen and comrades in battle -- they were defending their homeland against an attack -- and he was driven into exile