The Wanderer
Translated out of the Old English, The Exeter Book, 10th c.
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Letters: <strong>Alice Raw</strong> of the University of Oxford and <strong>Richard North</strong> of University College London respond to research suggesting that the chalk hill figure in Dorset dates from Anglo-Saxon times
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