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The Dream of the Rood

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The most complete text of "The Dream of the Rood" is found in a manuscript of Old English poetry dating from the second half of the tenth century and housed in the Cathedral library at Vercelli in North Italy. References to the poem also exist, with fragments of the text, on the large carved cross at Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire, and on the silver-work covering the famous Brussels Cross. The editors of this edition discuss and analyse the language used in these sources, and provide the most accurate text possible, with notes, full bibliography and glossary.

Author(s): Bruce Dickins, Alan S. C. Ross (eds.)
Series: Methuen's Old English Library
Edition: 4th, with additions and corrections
Publisher: Methuen Educational
Year: 1967

Language: English
Pages: 64
City: London

Preface vii
List of Abbreviations xi
Introduction:
Sources of Text 1
I. The Ruthwell Cross:
Description of the Cross 1
Date of the Cross 6
Language 8
II. The Vercelli Text 13
III. The Brussels Cross 13
IV. The Literary Relationships of the Poem 17
The Dream of the Rood:
Vercelli Text 20
Ruthwell Text 25
Brussels Text 26
Bibliography 36
Glossary:
I. Vercelli 41
II. Ruthwell 51