Dream of the Rood
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Description: Modern English translation by Karl Young. Includes introduction to the poem.
A Dream of the Cross [a.k.a. A Dream of the Rood], notes and translation by Karl Young Notes and translation by Karl Young Sometime between 690 and 750 a.d. an elaborately carved stone cross was raised at Ruthwell, north of the Humber. The cross bore an intricate program in its carved relief as well as lines of a poem cut in runic letters. Around the end of the tenth century a scribe, presumably in Wessex, compiled a volume of Anglo-Saxon devotional works. The tight and regular insular script of this volume includes several poems about the cross on which Jesus of Nazareth suffered His Passion. The stone cross at Ruthwell has been taken apart and reassembled several times since it was first carved. The book now resides in the cathedral library at Vercelli, Italy, and is known to modern scholars as
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