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The Ruthwell Cross is a stone Anglo-Saxon cross probably dating from the 8th century, [1] when the village of Ruthwell, now in Scotland, was part of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria. It is the most famous and elaborate Anglo-Saxon monumental sculpture, [ 2 ] and possibly contains the oldest surviving text, predating any manuscripts ...
Captioned as "Fig. 1. The Ruthwell Cross, between 1823 and 1887." Date: published 1912: Source: Cook, Albert S. 1912. The Date of the Ruthwell and Bewcastle Crosses. Yale University Press. Author: Albert S. Cook (1853–1927) Permission (Reusing this file) Author died more than 70 years ago - public domain
The head of the cross is missing but the remains are 14.5 feet (4.4 metres) high, and almost square in section 22 by 21 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches (56 cm × 54 cm) at the base. The crosses of Bewcastle and Ruthwell have been described by the scholar Nikolaus Pevsner as "the greatest achievement of their date in the whole of Europe".
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The framing device is the narrator having a dream. In this dream or vision he is speaking to the Cross on which Jesus was crucified. The poem itself is divided up into three separate sections: the first part (lines 1–27), the second part (lines 28–121) and the third part (lines 122–156). [1]
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Gar appears in manuscripts, and epigraphically on the Ruthwell Cross and probably on the Bewcastle Cross. [8] The unnamed ᛤ rune only appears on the Ruthwell Cross, where it seems to take calc's place as /k/ where that consonant is followed by a secondary fronted vowel. Cweorð and stan only appear in manuscripts. The unnamed ę rune only ...
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