Pages 51-54 of Reading Machines discusses the instable meaning of the Old English poem The Wife’s Lament. Look at the Utah Valley State students’ attempts to encode the poem at http://research.uvu.edu/mcdonald/Anglo-Saxon/wife’slament/. How have the students addressed the instability of the poem’s meaning? In what ways have they succeeded or failed? Post your thoughts to the online forum. Check the forum frequently to see what responses have been posted.

Also, please read the following in preparation for Wednesday’s class (you will need to login to the library’s system for access):

1. Thomas D. Hill, “‘Leger Weardiað’: The Wife’s Lament 34b,” ANQ 15.2 (2002): 34-37.

2. Carole Hough, “The Riddle of The Wife’s Lament Line 34b,” ANQ 16.4 (2003): 5-8.

Consider experimenting with adding these articles to your Zotero library. These short articles may inform your thoughts for your forum posts. On Wednesday, we will try our own “algorithmic” approach. If you get ambitious, you might try converting the text to data along the lines we were trying in last Wednesday’s class to see if you come up with any ideas. But this is not required in advance for this coming Wednesday.