| Front | The Husband's Message |
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| Back | An old English poem A woman of royal rank The Husband's Message" is an anonymous Old English poem, 53 lines long[1] and found only on folio 123 of the Exeter Book. The poem is cast as the private address of an unknown first-person speaker to a wife, challenging the reader to discover the speaker's identity and the nature of the conversation, the mystery of which is enhanced by a burn-hole at the beginning of the poem. |
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