"The Wife's Lament" or "The Wife's Complaint" is an Old English poem of 53 lines found on folio 115 of the Exeter Book and generally treated as an elegy in the manner of the German frauenlied, or "women's song". The poem has been relatively well preserved and requires few if any emendations to enable an initial reading. Thematically, the poem is primarily concerned with the evocation of the grief of the female speaker and with the representation of her state of despair. The tribulations she suffers leading to her state of lamentation, however, are cryptically described and have been subject to many interpretations. Indeed, Professor Stephen Ramsay has said, "the 'correct' interpretation of "The Wife's Lament" is one of the more hotly debated subjects in medieval studies."
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| - The Wife's Lament (« La Complainte de l'épouse ») est un poème en vieil anglais qui figure dans le Livre d'Exeter. Long de 53 vers, il décrit le chagrin d'une femme abandonnée par son mari pour des raisons inconnues. Elle se rappelle l'amour qui les unissait jadis et déplore sa situation actuelle, seule dans un environnement sauvage et hostile. Comme d'autres poèmes du Livre d'Exeter, il relève du genre élégiaque. Puisqu'il adopte le point de vue d'une femme sur ses peines de cœur, il peut être relié plus spécifiquement aux Frauenlieder allemands. (fr)
- "The Wife's Lament" or "The Wife's Complaint" is an Old English poem of 53 lines found on folio 115 of the Exeter Book and generally treated as an elegy in the manner of the German frauenlied, or "women's song". The poem has been relatively well preserved and requires few if any emendations to enable an initial reading. Thematically, the poem is primarily concerned with the evocation of the grief of the female speaker and with the representation of her state of despair. The tribulations she suffers leading to her state of lamentation, however, are cryptically described and have been subject to many interpretations. Indeed, Professor Stephen Ramsay has said, "the 'correct' interpretation of "The Wife's Lament" is one of the more hotly debated subjects in medieval studies." (en)
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| - The Wife's Lament (« La Complainte de l'épouse ») est un poème en vieil anglais qui figure dans le Livre d'Exeter. Long de 53 vers, il décrit le chagrin d'une femme abandonnée par son mari pour des raisons inconnues. Elle se rappelle l'amour qui les unissait jadis et déplore sa situation actuelle, seule dans un environnement sauvage et hostile. Comme d'autres poèmes du Livre d'Exeter, il relève du genre élégiaque. Puisqu'il adopte le point de vue d'une femme sur ses peines de cœur, il peut être relié plus spécifiquement aux Frauenlieder allemands. (fr)
- "The Wife's Lament" or "The Wife's Complaint" is an Old English poem of 53 lines found on folio 115 of the Exeter Book and generally treated as an elegy in the manner of the German frauenlied, or "women's song". The poem has been relatively well preserved and requires few if any emendations to enable an initial reading. Thematically, the poem is primarily concerned with the evocation of the grief of the female speaker and with the representation of her state of despair. The tribulations she suffers leading to her state of lamentation, however, are cryptically described and have been subject to many interpretations. Indeed, Professor Stephen Ramsay has said, "the 'correct' interpretation of "The Wife's Lament" is one of the more hotly debated subjects in medieval studies." (en)
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