Off the Beaten Track #11: The Wanderer by Tim Benjamin

An Exile in Ninth Century England. Image generated by AI

From the album Paths of Exile by Kantos Chamber Choir, conducted by Ellie Slorach An Exile in 9th Century England. The Wanderer is an anonymous Old English poem, written in Anglo Saxon, which is preserved in The Exeter Book, a collection of manuscripts which probably dates back to the late tenth century, along with other poems including The Seafarer. …

Off the Beaten Track #10: The Seafarer by Tim Benjamin

The Cover of Paths of Exile

From the album Paths of Exile by Kantos Chamber Choir, conducted by Ellie Slorach The cover of Paths of Exile The Seafarer is an Old English poem, written in Anglo Saxon, which is preserved in The Exeter Book, a collection of manuscripts which probably dates back to the late tenth century. The Exeter Book was …