The cavern is very old and leaves her filled with longing. To stay safe, she went to live in a forest grove in a cave under an oak tree, and that where she is writing her lament. The Wife continued to face hardship as a result of her wayward lord and his ongoing schemes. Their friendship vanished as if it had never existed in the first place. Sadly, she relays, she realized that she could never feel fondness for this man again. She remembers the good times of their marriage, when they had sworn to each other that only death could part them. Beneath his proclamations of love, "behind smiling face," he was actually planning to commit mortal crimes. Also, she quickly discovered that her husband had been plotting behind her back.
She moved to this strange place where she had no friends, which made her sad and lonely. She shares that ultimately, her lord requested her to live with him in a new country. Taking action, she decided to undertake a quest to find him, setting out as a lonely and "friendless wanderer." However, her lord's kinsmen did not want the couple to be reunited and devised plans to keep them on opposite sides of the "wide world." The continued separation left the wife heartbroken and longing for her husband. She was consumed with anxiety about his whereabouts. She explains that her misery began when her lord left their family and sailed away, leaving her behind. She has never experienced hardship like this before. Written in the first person, the titular wife begins by saying that her words come from a "deep sadness", which is a result of her exile.
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