W & E: a refracted translation of Wulf and Eadwacer Maria Barnas allerminst zwaar op de hand

allerminst zwaar op de hand

it is a motley hybrid of voices and modes that satirically styles itself as a cartoonish call and response

met een kritisch oog en een vaste hand

” But it is not only history that Cavuto is carrying forward in these poems

W & E: a refracted translation of Wulf and Eadwacer Maria Barnas allerminst zwaar op de handM. L. Martin M. L. Martins groundbreaking book, W & E begins with the mysterious Anglo Saxon poem commonly known as Wulf and Eadwacer. The poem, found only in the Exeter Codex, appears to tell the story of love and imprisonment: the speaker is kept from her lover, Wulf, by Eadwacer, who could be her husband or captor. But the narrative is elliptical and strange, the grammar ambiguous, the formal features unorthodox. The poem may not even be a story