The Wife's Lament Resources

We know you're wondering about other translations of the poem. Here are a few more to peruse, so you can see just how different each version turns out.

Check out Oxford University's comprehensive resource on the poem.

Here's an… interesting video interpretation of the poem.

Dying to know where Old English came from? This video's got answers.

For your listening pleasure, here is some guy on YouTube reading the poem out loud in Old English.

And now listen to poet Eavan Boland give her reading of the poem.

Here's the original text.

Check out the script of the first half of the original poem.

Now check out the second half.

Is our speaker actually dead? Read more on that theory here.

Mysteries abound… as explained in this article.