Choose either the theme of exile or the theme of long journeys and illustrate how the theme appears in the poem

Exile was one of the most tragic fates that Anglo-Saxon man or woman could imagine. As the relationship between a Lord and his retainer was of utmost significance, voluntary or forced exile was akin to a modern prison sentence. In "The Wanderer," the titular narrator mourns the death of his lord and his inability to find a new one. He journeys throughout the lands in isolation, remembering the warmth of the hearth and the laughter in the mead-hall. For him, the pain of separation is acute.