Answer: Because good things are linked with home
Explanation:
The Seafarer is a poem with 124 lines and it is an Old English poem which is describing an alone man on the sea(Seafarer).
Anglo-Saxon people had a very strong sense of community because everything that was showing as good, strong, superior and ethical always had something with the community and their home.
Loneliness and bad things very associated with people being far and alone from their homes.