Dream Of The Rood
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| Original language | Old English |
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| Editors | Michael Swanton |
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| ID | 2216040 |
About Dream Of The Rood
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 English poetry, it is written in alliterative verse. Rood is from the Old English word rōd 'pole', or more specifically 'crucifix'.
