The Ruin

The Ruin

The Ruin is an 8th century Old English poem from the Exeter Book by an unknown author. The poem's subject is ancient Roman ruins, assumed to be the ruins of Aquae Sulis at modern Bath, England, and the powerful fate (Weird or Wyrd) that has reduced a once lively community and its sturdy stone buildings to ruins. Part of the poem has been lost due the pages being damaged by fire. Although the poem shows no overt signs of Christianity, it embodies some Christian ideals in that it describes the disappearance of a society that placed an emphasis on hedonism and materialism, and could be the work of an early Anglo-Saxon ChristianFact|date=March 2008. The poet, however, does make several references to Wyrd, an element of North-Germanic pagan mythology.

The Ruin shares the melancholic worldview of some of its contemporary poems such as The Seafarer, The Wanderer and Deor.

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References

References

*"Anglo-Saxon poetry: an anthology of Old English poems" tr. S. A. J. Bradley. London: Dent, 1982 (translation into English prose).


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