The Seafarer Author:edited by I. L. Gordon This edition of The Seafarer (the first separate edition) is baserd on the text as it appears in the facsimile edition of The Exeter Book. References throughout indicate its indebtedness to previous editions and commentaries. An attempt has been made to assess the various theories of interpretation, and to relate the poem and its problems to t... more »he literary and intellectual background of the period.« less