Gratitude

Isn't it great to enjoy the gift of literacy?

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http://poemsintranslation.blogspot.com/2009/06/wulf-and-eadwacer-from-old-english.html

http://tastedthefruit.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/translation-a-woman-and-a-wolf/ 

http://www.thehypertexts.com/Wulf%20and%20Eadwacer%20Translation.htm

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A new interpretation of the diction of the poem, centering on lac (usually taken as "gift" or "combat" but also meaning "medicine" and wena/wenum (usually translated "yearnings" but also meaning "wens" or "tumors"), argues that the poem may be a charm against wens. The speaker is a woman (perhaps only figuratively), and Wolf is thought of as a disease spirit, engendering the wen as child (hwelp) on the narrator-victim, who speaks a diminishing charm to the disease. Eadwacer is most likely an epithet, "easily-weaker," addressed to the disease spirit. 

~ Wulf and Eadwacer: A Wen Charm

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http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/medlyric/corpuschristi.php