He is good to keep faith grief must never escapeĪ man’s heart too quickly unless with his might like a true So spoke the wise in heart he sits alone with his mystery. The Wanderer is a poem written in Old English, the language that the people living in England spoke before the Norman Conquest of 1066. Here is a man lent, here is a kinsman lent. Here is treasure lent, here is a friend lent, The way of fate changes the world under heaven. Grayed in the night as if they never were!Ī wall still stands near the tracks of the warriors,Īll is wretched in the realm of the earth What happened to the wine hall? Where are the sounds ofĮa-la bright beaker! Ea-la byrnied warrior!Įa-la the chiefs majesty! How those moments went, “What happened to the horse? What happened to the war. Without the sounds of joy of the city-dwellers.” Until the strongholds of the giants stood empty, Likewise God destroyed this earthly dwelling The wine halls crumbled the warriors lie dead,Ĭut off from joy the great troop all crumpled When all this world of wealth stands wastedĪs now in many places about this massive earth The good warrior must understand how ghostly it will be Which way the courage of his heart will course. Until, like a true warrior, he eagerly tests Nor even too feverish for boasting until testing his fibre. Nor too fearful nor too ready nor too greedy for reward Nor too weak as a warrior nor too witlessly brash Never too hasty with feelings nor too hot with words No man is wise until he lives many winters Why my soul does not blacken when I seriously consider “Therefore in this world I cannot think of a reason The breasts of ghosts do not bring the living He greets them with joy he anxiously graspsįor something to say. When the mind ponders the memory of kinsmen When the friendless warrior awakens again In times gone by at the gift-giver’s throne. The lord of the troop and lays on his knee It seems in his heart that he holds and kisses Without the beloved wisdom of a friendly lord. How, as a youth, his friend honored him at feasts, He remembers warriors, the hall, rewards, He who has put it to a testĪ freezing heart, not the fullness of the earth. Sought the troop of a dispenser of treasure, In the lordly custom for the courageous man As is often the case with Anglo-Saxon verse, the composer and compiler are anonymous, and within the manuscript the poem is untitled. It comprises 115 lines of alliterative verse. The deadly onslaughts, the death of the clan, The Wanderer is an Old English poem preserved only in an anthology known as the Exeter Book, a manuscript dating from the late 10th century. The Creator’s help, though heavy with care Several years later he recounts his plight.) He revived after the battle and found himself chiefless. A warrior was stunned unconscious during a battle in which his chief died. Production design is excellent.( Conjecture about the setting of the poem: In Anglo-Saxon England a warrior owed complete fealty to his chief. Nissen is appropriately over the top as the priestess, but Collier steals the show in a terrific performance as the wanderer. and Kathlyn Williams as the parents, Kathryn Hill as the girl next door, Holmes Herbert as the Prophet, Sojin and Snitz Edwards as sellers of fancy goods, and Myrna Loy (legend has it) among the dancing girls. This was a major Paramount release of 1925, directed by Raoul Walsh.
Collier survives the debacle and returns home to beg forgiveness of his parents. When he's caught cheating he's about to be cast out from the city when heaven intervenes and destroys it anyway. At some point Wallace Beery wanders in as Pharis (most of his part is lost) and seems to displace Collier in Tisha's bed, but he's out of money anyway. He also gets sucked into crooked gambling games run by Tola. Long story short, Collier soon loses all his money, spending it on jewels and robes, and Tisha. She's protected by by crooked Tola (Ernest Torrence). It's the story of a biblical-era country boy named Jether (William Collier, Jr.,) who goes off to an unnamed city and gets pulled into the high life with Tisha, High Priestess of Ishtar, played by Greta Nissen in an early Hollywood appearance (maybe her first). THE WANDERER survives in a 63-minute abridgement, down form its original 9-reels, which would have been more than 90 minutes.
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