Wander by Ascese

The Wanderer is an Old English poem preserved only in an anthology known as the Exeter Book, a manuscript dating from the late tenth century. It counts one hundred and fifteen lines of alliterative verse. As is often the case in Anglo-Saxon verse, the composer and compiler are anonymous, and within the manuscript the poem is untitled. The date of the poem is impossible to determine, but it must have been composed and written before the Exeter Book.



Recorded & produced between 2012-2015.

Ascese (English: asceticism) is a sombre black metal outfit from Utrecht, the Netherlands. Ascese channels old English poems and tales of destitution and world-renunciation.