W & E: a refracted translation of Wulf and Eadwacer Costume en Face From critical talks to fictional

From critical talks to fictional monologues

and Polibea (Madrid

soms zakelijk

and immolation

W & E: a refracted translation of Wulf and Eadwacer Costume en Face From critical talks to fictionalM. 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