Ebook: The Dream of the Rood

The most complete text of "The Dream of the Rood" is found in a manuscript of Old English poetry dating from the second half of the tenth century and housed in the Cathedral library at Vercelli in North Italy. References to the poem also exist, with fragments of the text, on the large carved cross at Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire, and on the silver-work covering the famous Brussels Cross. The editors of this edition discuss and analyse the language used in these sources, and provide the most accurate text possible, with notes, full bibliography and glossary.