Read this sentence from ""the wife’s lament"": be he outlawed far / in a strange folk-land—that my beloved sits / under a rocky cliff rimed with frost / a lord dreary in spirit. what words or phrases you to recognize the historical context of the line?

Outlawed, strange folk-land.

Explanation:

"The Wife's Lament" is a poem about a wife worrying over the sudden and long departure of her husband from their home. This poem written in an Old English form is from the Exeter Book, an old Anglo-Saxon book of poetry written during the 10th century.

The 53 lined poem begins with the wife's lament for the husband's long absence and then moves on to her own journey of looking for him. It majorly has themes of love lost and loneliness but towards the end of the poem, she mentioned the husband's exile to a very distant land. The words like "outlawed" and "strange folk-land" gives an image of the setting as that of some place or time in the past.

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