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This document provides a summary of the paper "Winter in Anglo-Saxon Poetry" by Mark Craster-Chambers. The paper analyzes depictions of winter in several Old English poems from the Exeter Book as well as poems from the Poetic Edda. It argues that winter represents exile and psychological turmoil for characters separated from the protection of the hall or lord. Uncertainty about survival without this protection creates an elegiac tone. Winter landscapes thus depict the world of exile. The paper also examines

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