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Marcel Weber
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The Seafarer "… He who fares so prosperously on land knows not that I have spent great careworn winters an exile on the ice-cold sea, cut off from kin, hung round with icicles, hail pelting me in showers, I heard nothing but the booming sea and the cold billowing sea-waves. Sometimes I heard the song of the swan, seized gladness in the cry of the gannet and the sound of the curlew, instead of the laughter of men; in the screaming gull, instead of the clanking mead-cups. On the sea, storms beat against the rocky cliffs, the icy-feathered tern echoed the storm-winds, as, too, the wing-soaked eagle. No protector could comfort the heart in need. He who holds the bliss of life, proud-flushed with wine, who suffers few hardships in cities, disbelieves how often in weariness I had to dwell upon the ocean path. The shadow of night grew dark, snow flew in from the north, fast bound the land, hail, coldest of grains, falling upon the earth And yet my heart's thoughts are stirred that I should make trial again of the high seas, of the tossing salt waves. My heart's desire exhorts me to venture forth again …" These words are taken from the poem "The Seafarer. The Seafarer is an Old English poem giving a first-person account of a man alone on the sea. It's written down in the Exeter Book, is a tenth-century book which is an anthology of Anglo-Saxon poetry. The Seafarer Poem has most often been categorised as an elegy, a poetic genre commonly assigned to a particular group of Old English poems that reflect on spiritual and earthly melancholy. #iceland #sunset #landscapephotography #photography #bird #scotland #sky #paysage #denmark #natur #sunrise #sea #landscapephoto #landscape #norway #faroeislands #outdoor #nature #landschaftsfotografie #landschaft #travelgram #birds #finland #naturephotography #sweden #ireland #sunrise #travel #mood