The poet or poets of these poems reveals the emotional consequences, pain, devastation and remorse that can come from infidelity in marriage or betrayal by family or friends. The husband had felt great rage and overwhelming grief. I feel in the wind that the man dearest to me detests me. I was banished to ths knoll knotted by woods to live in aden dug beneath an oak. The poet or poets also express the idea that a severed marriage, even one so badly severed, is mendable.
Forgiveness can grace both wronged and wrongdoer.
Since in these poems, the wife and husband recall and long again to return to their happier past, there is hope for this couple. You shall directly know how you may think of the thorough love my lord feels for you. The husband's message, the token carved on the the staff may be the third voice or other speaker. It's not clear. At any rate, we can see that the husband wants to revert to what is customary and traditional to bring them both back to health.