George P. Krapp and Elliot V.K. Dobbie produced an edition of the Exeter Book, containing "The Seafarer", in the "Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records" in 1936. Ida L. Gordon produced the first modern scholarly edition in 1960. Later, Anne L. Klinck included the poem in her compendium edition of Old English elegies in 1992. In 2000 Bernard J Muir produced a revised second edition of "The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry", first published in 1994 by the Exeter University Press, in two volumes, which includes text and commentary on "The Seafarer".