The Wanderer

• Author: Unknown
• Time Period: Anglo-Saxon
• Genre: Poetry, Elergy (lament, serious meditation)
• Plot Summary: The wanderer has lost his lord and therefore his place in the world so he is alone and looking for a new mead-hall
• Theme: Identity, place in the world, loss of relationships and companions. Importance of Comitatus bond
• How does this book embody the characteristics of the time period: It is sad, gloomy, cold, wintery, fatalistic, It's about the most important relationship at the time, between Lord and Thane. Longing to find that relationship again since he has lost the one he had.
• Others: Shares the time period with Beowulf. Has similar topic and themes in the commitatus bond. Coexistence at pagan and Christian elements
•  Comitatus bond
• Nature is harsh and malevolent.