id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-235 The Seafarer (poem) - Wikipedia .html text/html 5288 656 75 The poem consists of 124 lines, followed by the single word "Amen" and is recorded only at folios 81 verso 83 recto[1] of the tenth-century[2] Exeter Book, one of the four surviving manuscripts of Old English poetry. Pope and Stanley Greenfield have specifically debated the meaning of the word sylf (modern English: self, very, own),[35] which appears in the first line of the poem.[36][37] They also debate whether the seafarer's earlier voyages were voluntary or involuntary.[18] Klinck included the poem in her compendium edition of Old English elegies in 1992.[42] 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.[43] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-235.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-235.txt