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    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...
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    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...
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    The Dream of the Roodthe guide in Dream of the Rood is the Cross on which Christ was crucified. Geoffrey Chaucer, Legend of Good Women, House of Fame...
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  • Michael James, The Dream of the Rood. Godden, Malcolm, Michael Lapidge. The Cambridge companion to Old English literature. 2002. University of Cambridge Press...
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    Ruthwell Cross (category Sculptures of the Crucifixion of Jesus)
    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    "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...
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    Ruthwell (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
    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...
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    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...
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    Christian poetry (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
    where the Angels are in a military hierarchy similar to the Roman Legions and where Jesus Christ is enthroned like a Roman Emperor The Dream of the Rood, a...
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    norna. Neidorf, Leonard (2021-06-28). "Goths, Huns, and The Dream of the Rood". The Review of English Studies. 72 (307): 821–835. doi:10.1093/res/hgab022...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • Cynewulf (category Year of birth unknown)
    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...
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    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...
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    Jan Čermák (category Knights First Class of the Order of the Lion of Finland)
    The Dream of the Rood, The Rune Poem and a selection of the Anglo-Saxon laws. In 2003, he won the Josef Jungmann Award for his translation of Beowulf...
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  • 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...
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  • Leonard Neidorf (category Academic staff of Nanjing University)
    poems, including Widsith, Maxims, the Finnesburg Fragment, and The Dream of the Rood. His research addresses questions of authorship, interpretation, literary...
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    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...
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    of these are extant in Irish manuscripts. There are religious works that can be identified as Scottish. In Old English there is the Dream of the Rood...
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  • 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...
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  • 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:...
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