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- University of North Carolina Press
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- Copyright © 2004 by The University of North Carolina Press.
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- 1543-0383
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Abstract
STUDIES IN PHILOLOGY Volume 101 Summer, 2004 Number 3 by T is a paroemiological commonplace (a proverb scholar's proverb) that proverbs and sentences are often difficult and sometimes very enigmatic indeed. Even native speakers may find it hard to provide an adequate gloss for a current proverbial expression, and on occasions they may find a proverb wholly enigmatic. It is with appropriate hesitation, then, that I would like to reopen the discussion of a difficult sapiential passage in The Wanderer. The Wanderer is a soliloquy spoken by an exiled warrior who laments the lost joys of his youth and who moves from considering his own personal loss and suffering to the tribulations of the world itself in its last age. One consolation is the reflection that experience is necessary for wisdom; the Wanderer moves from a statement of this truism to a definition of wisdom. Swa þes middangeard ealra dogra gehwam dreoseð ond fealleþ, forþon ne mæg weorþan wis wer, ær he age wintra dæl in woruldrice. Wita sceal geþyldig, ne sceal no to hatheort ne to hrædwyrde, ne to wac wiga ne to wanhydig, ne to forht ne to fægen, ne to feohgifre ne næfre gielpes to
Journal
Studies in Philology – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Sep 7, 2004