Directory of Dream of the Rood Resources

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The Dream of the Rood is arguably the greatest religious poem in Old English literature.

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• Dream of the Rood

  http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Dream_Rood_Kennedy.pdf
  Modern English translation by Charles W. Kennedy.

• Dream of the Rood

  http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/young/ky-drc.htm
  Modern English translation by Karl Young. Includes introduction to the poem.

• Dream of the Rood

  http://www.stephen-spender.org/SSMTrust/times_ss_prize_04/ssmt_evPrizeOver18_01.htm
  Old English text with facing modern English translation by Mark Leech.

• Dream of the Rood

  http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~mmcgilli/OEPoetry/Dreamfram.html
  Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.

• Dream of the Rood

  http://www.lightspill.com/poetry/oe/rood.html
  Jonathan Glenn's modern English translation with textual notes.

• Dream of the Rood

  http://www.apocalyptic-theories.com/literature/dor/dreamofrood.html
  Old English text and modern English translation by Elaine Treharne.

• Dream of the Rood

  https://web.utk.edu/~rliuzza/514/pdf/Dream%20of%20the%20Rood.pdf
  Modern English translation by Roy Liuzza

• Dream of the Rood and the Image of Christ in the Early Middle Ages

  http://history.hanover.edu/hhr/98/hhr98_2.html
  Article by Jeannette C. Brock shows how the image of Christ in the poem reflects the heroic ideals of the period rather than the original biblical accounts.

 

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