Certain motifs, or recurring ideas, such as the journey, exile, and fate, appear frequently in many Anglo-Saxon works. What recurrent motifs have you found in the three works? Cite evidence in the text to support your answers.
        In “The Seafarer”, fate was a recurring motif. Part of the text states that ‘No man has ever faced the dawn/Certain which of Fate’s three threats/Would fall: illness, or age, or an enemy’s/Sword, snatching the life from his soul. This piece also depicts this seafarer’s journey across the world. In the first work by Bede, Caedmon’s fate isn’t negative. God gives him the gift of being able to read anything good, like the Bible, and turn it into a melody; a melody with no profanity, just pleasant notes. In “The Wife’s Lament”, Fate and exile are motifs mentioned. The Wife is exiled when her husband, the lord, has to leave, due to the kinsmen who secretly plotted to break them up. She’s forced to leave her abode and live in the forest’s grove once he leaves. Yet her husband doesn’t know anything about this, he thinks his wife is tucked safely away in her home.