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The Dream of the Rood, in the Old English Poetry in Facsimile Project (edition, digital facsimile images, translation), ed. by Martin Foys et al. (Madison: Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture, 2019-). The Dream of the Rood, ed. by Michael Swanton, rev. edn (Exeter: University of Exeter, 1987).
Drawing of the runic inscription (Dream of the Rood interpretation) Translation of Ruthwell Cross Inscription [17] At each side of the vine-tracery runic inscriptions are carved. The runes were first described around 1600, and Reginald Bainbrigg of Appleby recorded the inscription for the Britannia of William Camden.
In addition to Beowulf, Neidorf has published extensively on other major Old English poems, including Widsith, [9] [10] [11] Maxims, [12] [13] the Finnesburg Fragment, [14] [15] and The Dream of the Rood.
Dream of the Rood; Elene; a fragment of a homiletic poem; History. The book is a parchment manuscript of the end of the tenth century, containing a miscellany, or ...
An inscription around the edges reads: + Rod is min nama; geo ic ricne Cyning bær byfigynde, blod bestemed (‘Rood is my name. Trembling once, I bore a powerful king, made wet with blood’). These lines bear a close relationship to ll. 44 and 48 in the Old English poem, 'The Dream of the Rood'.
His translations from Old English into Czech include Beowulf, The Exodus, The Dream of the Rood, The Rune Poem and a selection of the Anglo-Saxon laws. [4] In 2003, he won the Josef Jungmann Award for his translation of Beowulf into Czech, and in 2017, he was awarded the Order of the Lion of Finland.
In its present state, the poem comprises 439 lines in twelve distinct sections. In the assessment of Edward B. Irving Jr, "two masterpieces stand out of the mass of Anglo-Saxon religious poetry: The Dream of the Rood and the sequence of liturgical lyrics in the Exeter Book ... known as Christ I". [1]
The comitatus is also examined through a Christian context in works such as Dream of the Rood, where Christ is depicted more as a warrior-king doing battle with the Devil and accepts physical defeat for spiritual victory. The rood, or cross, in the poem acts as a retainer "who is forced by his very loyalty to become the instrument of his ...