 | The Dream of the Rood is one of the Christian poems in the corpus of Old English literature and an example of the genre of dream poetry. Like most Old... 26 KB (3,492 words) - 10:52, 21 December 2023 |
 | Holyrood Palace and the Old English poem The Dream of the Rood. The phrase "by the rood" was used in swearing, e.g. "No, by the rood, not so" in Shakespeare's... 19 KB (2,187 words) - 14:57, 21 March 2023 |
 | Ruthwell Cross (category Sculptures of the Annunciation) Christian monument, the runic alphabet, the latter containing lines similar to lines 39–64 of Dream of the Rood, an Old English poem, which were possibly... 19 KB (2,570 words) - 19:12, 16 April 2024 |
 | The Dream of the Rood – the guide in Dream of the Rood is the Cross on which Christ was crucified. Geoffrey Chaucer, Legend of Good Women, House of Fame... 13 KB (1,729 words) - 23:51, 4 March 2024 |
Michael James, The Dream of the Rood. Godden, Malcolm, Michael Lapidge. The Cambridge companion to Old English literature. 2002. University of Cambridge Press... 4 KB (258 words) - 19:38, 27 March 2023 |
 | Anglo-Saxons (redirect from The anglo saxon way of life) in the Exeter Book, while the Vercelli Book has the Dream of the Rood, some of which is also carved on the Ruthwell Cross. The Franks Casket also has carved... 189 KB (26,008 words) - 14:10, 26 April 2024 |
Old English literature (category History of literature in the United Kingdom) verifies the age of at least this portion of the poem. The Dream of the Rood is a dream vision in which the personified cross tells the story of the crucifixion... 68 KB (8,027 words) - 16:31, 25 March 2024 |
Holyrood (cross) (redirect from Black Rood of Scotland) The Holyrood or Holy Rood is a Christian relic alleged to be part of the True Cross on which Jesus died. The word derives from the Old English rood, meaning... 8 KB (1,077 words) - 10:30, 23 March 2024 |
Northumbrian Old English (category Languages attested from the 7th century) including the bulk of Cædmon's poetry, have been lost. Other examples of this dialect are the Runes on the Ruthwell Cross from the Dream of the Rood. Also... 14 KB (1,520 words) - 15:26, 3 February 2024 |
The Legend of the Rood (Latin: De ligno sancte crucis) is a complex of medieval tales loosely derived from the Old Testament. In its fullest form, the... 4 KB (455 words) - 21:16, 10 May 2023 |
Medieval poetry (section The Matter of France) religious poetry includes the poem Christ by Cynewulf and the poem The Dream of the Rood, preserved in both manuscript form and on the Ruthwell Cross. We do... 8 KB (902 words) - 11:36, 18 February 2024 |
the Journal of English and Germanic philology, V (1903–1905), pp. 44–57. The Holy Rood, a dream (1866). A translation of the poem Dream of the Rood,... 340 KB (38,517 words) - 06:17, 21 April 2024 |
Christ I (redirect from The Advent Lyrics) poetry: The Dream of the Rood and the sequence of liturgical lyrics in the Exeter Book ... known as Christ I". The topic of the poem is Advent, the time... 18 KB (1,370 words) - 20:25, 6 February 2024 |
Howard Ferguson (composer) (category Academics of the Royal Academy of Music) large choral work The Dream of the Rood in 1958–9, he received a commission to write a string quartet. It was during the composition of this that he felt... 11 KB (1,392 words) - 15:40, 28 February 2024 |
 | Halloween (redirect from History and folklore of Halloween) the saints". Ó Carragáin, Éamonn. Ritual and the Rood: Liturgical Images and the Old English Poems of the Dream of the Rood Tradition. University of Toronto... 172 KB (18,976 words) - 07:13, 27 April 2024 |
 | with no reason to connect the scene with the Book of Genesis. Adam and Eve (Latter Day Saint movement) Dream of the Rood Original sin Makowiecki, Mark... 17 KB (2,097 words) - 15:45, 11 April 2024 |
 | excerpts from The Dream of the Rood, an Old English poem. After the Disruption of 1843 in the Church of Scotland, Dr. Duncan became one of the founding ministers... 5 KB (406 words) - 11:10, 3 July 2023 |
 | English literature (redirect from Age of sensibility) language. The poem, The Dream of the Rood, was inscribed upon the Ruthwell Cross.[pages needed] Two Old English poems from the late 10th century are The Wanderer... 144 KB (17,662 words) - 14:20, 14 April 2024 |
 | "feast, banquet". Accounts of the symbel are preserved in the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf (lines 489-675 and 1491–1500), Dream of the Rood (line 141) and Judith (line... 17 KB (2,252 words) - 17:06, 16 March 2024 |
Finnsburh, and the story of "Cynewulf and Cyneheard." The comitatus is also examined through a Christian context in works such as Dream of the Rood, where Christ... 18 KB (2,509 words) - 11:29, 16 April 2024 |
 | Vercelli (category Municipalities of the Province of Vercelli) it contains the famous Vercelli Book — an Old English manuscript which includes the celebrated alliterative poem The Dream of the Rood. The civil archives... 16 KB (1,802 words) - 13:33, 12 November 2023 |
 | written in alliterative verse, and much of the literature written in Old English, such as the Dream of the Rood, is explicitly Christian, though poems... 94 KB (10,704 words) - 14:00, 26 April 2024 |
 | Anglo-Saxon paganism (section Days of the week) that the idea of a world tree can be discerned through certain references in the Dream of the Rood poem. This idea may be bolstered if it is the case... 110 KB (14,998 words) - 18:35, 10 March 2024 |
 | All Saints' Day (redirect from The Feast of All Saints) and all the saints". Ó Carragáin, Éamonn (2005). Ritual and the Rood: Liturgical Images and the Old English Poems of the Dream of the Rood Tradition... 54 KB (6,024 words) - 00:27, 26 March 2024 |
 | Affective piety (section The origins and functions of affective piety: the current scholarly consensus) identification with the Rood (the cross) in The Dream of the Rood along the same lines. Allen J. Frantzen's article, "Spirituality and Devotion in the Anglo-Saxon... 109 KB (14,248 words) - 11:00, 25 April 2024 |
 | Christian poetry (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter) languages. In Old English poetry, the Dream of the Rood, a meditation on Christ's crucifixion which adapts the conventions of Pagan Germanic epic poetry and... 44 KB (6,186 words) - 22:47, 12 February 2024 |
 | wider tradition of 'speaking objects' in Anglo-Saxon culture and have much in common with poems such as The Dream of the Rood and The Husband's Message... 18 KB (2,379 words) - 19:39, 13 December 2023 |
Cynewulf (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference) author of the Riddles of the Exeter Book, the Phoenix, the Andreas, and the Guthlac; even famous unassigned poems such as the Dream of the Rood, the Harrowing... 15 KB (2,055 words) - 04:43, 3 October 2023 |
 | criticism The literary trope of the speaking Cross, a form of prosopopoeia, is probably most familiar to readers of English in The Dream of the Rood. It is... 6 KB (662 words) - 16:42, 6 October 2022 |
Christ II (redirect from Crist of Cynewulf) of the Middle Ages. Supplement 1. New York: Scribner, c1982-c1989. Marchland, James W. "The Leaps of Christ and The Dream of the Rood." In Source of Wisdom:... 14 KB (1,948 words) - 12:21, 28 December 2022 |