Various Theories
According to professor Luc De Grauwe of the University of Ghent, the text could equally well be Old English, more specifically Old Kentish.
Recently, professor Frits van Oostrom of Utrecht University linked it to the Moorish Kharjas genre, which includes verses sung by women to their absent lovers. He concludes that the fragment was probably written by a woman or from a female perspective.
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