Dream of the Rood

    Dream of the Rood: OE Text
  • Dream of the Rood Online
  • Cook, Albert S., ed. The Dream of the Rood. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1905.
  • Dickins, Bruce and Alan S.C. Ross, ed. The Dream of the Rood. 4th ed. London: Methuen, 1963.
  • Swanton, Michael J., ed. The Dream of the Rood. Rev. ed. Exeter: U of Exeter P, 1987. [Bibliography p. 79-92.]
  • Pope, John C., ed. Seven Old English Poems. New York: Norton, 1966. [Excellent notes. Includes The Dream of the Rood, Maldon, Wanderer, Seafarer, Deor.]
  • Case, Steven Arthur. "The dream of the rood: a survey of translations and editions." M.A. Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1987.
    The Ruthwell Cross
  • Pictures of all four sides of the Ruthwell Cross (the cover of Brendan Cassidy's book)
  • Tony Jebson's description of the sculpture and runic inscription
  • The Ruthwell Cross in its setting ("Dark Age Dumfries and Galloway" (15 early medieval sites):
  • Cassidy, Brendan, ed. The Ruthwell Cross: papers from the colloquium sponsored by the Index of Christian Art, Princeton University, 8 December 1989. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992. Davis CC315.5 .R86 1992
  • Brown, G. Baldwin. The Arts in Early England. 5 vols. London: Murray, 1925. 5:102-317.
  • Saxl, Fritz. "The Ruthwell Cross." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institute 6 (1943): 1-19.
  • Shapiro, Meyer. "The Religious Meaning of the Ruthwell Cross." Art Bulletin 26 (1944): 232-245.
  • Mercer, Eric. "The Ruthwell and Bewcastle Crosses." Antiquity 38 (1964): 268-76.
  • Page, R.I. An Introduction to English Runes. London: Methuen, 1973. 48-52.
    Dream of the Rood: Studies
  • Calder, D.G. and M.J.B. Allen. Sources and Analogues of Old English Poetry: the major Latin sources in translation. London: Brewer, 1976. 53-58.
  • Burrow, John A. "An Approach to The Dream of the Rood." Neophilologus 43 (1959): 123-33.
  • Fleming, John. "The Dream of the Rood and Anglo-Saxon Monasticism." Traditio 22 (1966): 43-72.
  • Kaske, R.E. "A Poem of the Cross in the Exeter Book: 'Riddle 60' and 'The Husband's Message'." Traditio 23 (1967): 41-71.
  • Patch, Howard R. "Liturgical Influences on The Dream of the Rood." PMLA 24 (1919): 233-57.
  • Schlauch, Margaret. "The Dream of the Rood as Prosopopoeia." Essays and Studies in Honor of Carleton Brown. New York: New York UP, 1940. 23-34.
  • Smith, James. "The garments that honour the cross in The Dream of the Rood," Anglo-Saxon England, 4 (1975), 29-37.
  • Woolf, Rosemary. "Doctrinal Influences on The Dream of the Rood," Medium Æevum, 27 (1958), 137-53.

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