Preface
When my husband, Professor E. V. Gordon, died in 1938 he left an uncompleted draft of an edition of The Wanderer and The Seafarer, on which he had been working in collaboration with Professor J. R. R. Tolkien.

Introduction
THE MANUSCRIPT
The unique text of The Seafarer is on folios 81b-83a of the Exeter Book, presented to the Library of Exeter Cathedral by Bishop Leofric not later than 1072, and still preserved there.

MÆg ic be me sylfum  soðgied wrecan,
siþas seegan,  hu ic geswincdagum
earfoðhwile  oft þrowade,...