All the angels of the Lord looked on; men over the earth and all this glorious creation. covered worthily the Creator’s tree. to bleed on the right side. I was all beset with sorrows, stained with blood, now bedecked with treasure. ripped up from my roots. Strong enemies seized me there, enemies enough fixed me fast. Then I saw the Lord of mankind.

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 .

‘The Dream of the Rood‘ is an Old English poem that presents a dream in which the speaker saw the cross, describing the episode of crucifixion. In this Old English poem, there are three sections. In the first section, the speaker presents an image …

If the Dream of the Rood does not say what kind explicitly, I’m going to more or less assume we don’t know, nor was it important to interpreting that particular poem. However, there is a Cross riddle (in the Exeter Book Riddles section) that says it uses the wood of four different trees.

The Dream of the Rood, Old English lyric, the earliest dream poem and one of the finest religious poems in the English language, once, but no longer, attributed to Caedmon or Cynewulf. In a dream the unknown poet beholds a beautiful tree—the rood, or cross, on which Christ died.

men over the earth and all this glorious creation. wounded with guilts. I saw the tree of glory, covered magnificently the tree of the forest. to bleed on the right side. I was all drenched with sorrows. treasure. ripped up by my roots. They seized me there, strong enemies, raise up their criminals. enemies enough fastened me there.

‘The Dream of the Rood’ is thus the first great Christian dream-vision poem in English literature, a precursor to the fourteenth-century Pearl and Langland’s Piers Plowman among many other later works.

Aug 30, 2024 · The Dream of the Rood is an Old English poem that tells the story of the crucifixion of Christ from the perspective of the cross (the “rood” in Old English). The poem is considered one of the most important works of Old English literature and is notable for its complex mix of Christian and pagan imagery.

See also my notes on The Dream of the Rood. Text. Listen! The choicest of visions I wish to tell, which came as a dream in middle-night, after voice-bearers lay at rest. It seemed that I saw a most wondrous tree born aloft, wound round by light, 5 brightest of beams. All was that beacon sprinkled with gold. Gems stood

set upon the rood. In the world I have not many mighty friends, but they have journeyed hence, out of the pleasures of this worldly life, and sought the King of glory. Now they dwell in heaven above with the High Father, there abide in glory. And day by day I wait until the cross of