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Much of the substance of The Seafarer seems to adapt well to this gridiron. Naturally, the only animals in the poem are birds, except for the whale, which the Anglo-Saxons considered a monster. The anfloga does well for a dragon, of the winged species. The domestic animals need replacing by the (conjectural) fruits of the (farmer's) field, conceivably cold corn. But the structural plan of Lévi-Strauss is only slightly manipulated, and shows that the seafarer poet may instinctively be seeing his voyage as a return to nature, conforming to ancient mythological concept. It is helpful that he speaks of godes egsan and of the deity as Lord or Dispenser, terms quite as applicable to Zeus as to Jehovah. Christ, finally suggested by lufan dryhtnes, is not as strongly present.
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