Deor
Sign in to save"Deor" (or "The Lament of Deor") is an Old English poem found on folio 100r–100v of the late-10th-century collection the Exeter Book. The poem consists of a reflection on misfortune by a poet whom the poem is usually thought to name Deor. The poem has no title in the Exeter Book itself; the title has been bestowed by modern editors.
Key facts
- Medieval text.name
- Deor
- Medieval text.image
- File:Exeter Book.jpg
- Medieval text.caption
- Exeter Book (Exeter Cathedral Library MS 3501), the manuscript in which "Deor" is recorded
- Medieval text.author(s)
- Unknown
- Medieval text.language
- West Saxon dialect of Old English
- Medieval text.date
- c. AD 970–990 (date of manuscript)
- Medieval text.manuscript(s)
- Exeter Book (Exeter Cathedral Library MS 3501)
- Medieval text.verse form
- Alliterative verse
- Medieval text.length
- 42 lines
- Medieval text.genre
- Old English elegiac poetry
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"Deor" (or "The Lament of Deor") is an Old English poem found on folio 100r–100v of the late-10th-century collection the Exeter Book. The poem consists of a reflection on misfortune by a poet whom the poem is usually thought to name Deor. The poem has no title in the Exeter Book itself; the title has been bestowed by modern editors.
In the poem, Deor's lord has replaced him with another poet. Deor mentions various figures from Germanic tradition and reconciles his own troubles with the troubles these figures faced, ending each section with the refrain "that passed away, so may this."