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==Origin==

==Origin==

French ''désolation'' 12th century, [[Latin]] ''dēsōlātiōn'', of [[action]] from ''dēsōlāre'' to deprive of [[inhabitants]], depopulate.

French ''désolation'' 12th century, [[Latin]] ''dēsōlātiōn'', of [[action]] from ''dēsōlāre'' to deprive of [[inhabitants]], depopulate.

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century 12th Century]

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century 12th Century]

==Definitions==

==Definitions==

*1: the [[action]] of desolating

*1: the [[action]] of desolating

*4: barren wasteland  

*4: barren wasteland  

==Exeter Book==

==Exeter Book==

The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exeter_book Exeter Book] is the largest extant collection of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_literature#Extant_manuscripts Old English poetry]. Copied c. 975, the [[manuscript]] was given to Exeter Cathedral by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leofric,_Bishop_of_Exeter Bishop Leofric] (died 1072). It begins with some long religious [[poems]]: the [[Christ]], in three parts; two poems on St. Guthlac; the fragmentary “Azarius”; and the allegorical ''Phoenix''. Following these are a number of shorter religious verses intermingled with [[poems]] of types that have [[survived]] only in this codex. All the extant Anglo-Saxon lyrics, or elegies, as they are usually called—“The [[Wanderer]],” “The Seafarer,” “The Wife’s [[Lament]],” “The Husband’s Message,” and “The Ruin”—are found here. These are [[secular]] poems evoking a poignant sense of '''desolation''' and [[loneliness]] in their [[descriptions]] of the [[separation]] of lovers, the sorrows of [[exile]], or the [[terrors]] and attractions of the [[sea]], although some of them—e.g., “The Wanderer” and “The Seafarer”—also carry the weight of religious [[allegory]]. In addition, the Exeter Book preserves 95 [[riddles]], a [[genre]] that would otherwise have been represented by a solitary example.

The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exeter_book Exeter Book] is the largest extant collection of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_literature#Extant_manuscripts Old English poetry]. Copied c. 975, the [[manuscript]] was given to Exeter Cathedral by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leofric,_Bishop_of_Exeter Bishop Leofric] (died 1072). It begins with some long religious [[poems]]: the [[Christ]], in three parts; two poems on St. Guthlac; the fragmentary “Azarius”; and the allegorical ''Phoenix''. Following these are a number of shorter religious verses intermingled with [[poems]] of types that have [[survived]] only in this codex. All the extant Anglo-Saxon lyrics, or elegies, as they are usually called—“The [[Wanderer]],” “The Seafarer,” “The Wife’s [[Lament]],” “The Husband’s Message,” and “The Ruin”—are found here. These are [[secular]] poems evoking a poignant sense of '''desolation''' and [[loneliness]] in their [[descriptions]] of the [[separation]] of lovers, the sorrows of [[exile]], or the [[terrors]] and attractions of the [[sea]], although some of them—e.g., “The Wanderer” and “The Seafarer”—also carry the weight of religious [[allegory]]. In addition, the Exeter Book preserves 95 [[riddles]], a [[genre]] that would otherwise have been represented by a solitary example.

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