This document is a term paper submitted by four students to their professor for an Old English poetry course. The paper analyzes and summarizes the Old English poem "The Wanderer". It discusses how the poem is structured as a monologue by an aging warrior who roams after losing his lord and kin. It also analyzes the poem's two distinct parts - a lament for his losses and reflections on man's fate. The paper concludes that "The Wanderer" uses the elegiac form to convey the meditations of a solitary exile on his past happiness, present hardships, and values of forbearance and faith in God.