Which of the following best describes 'The Wife's Lament'?
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Correct answer: A female-voiced elegy mourning exile from a husband
The Wife's Lament is one of the few surviving Old English poems with a female persona (a 'frauenlied'). The speaker mourns her isolation and misery after being exiled to a dark earth-hall, separated from her husband due to the scheming of his kinsmen.
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