Summary: <p><strong><em>The</em></strong> <strong><em>Dream of the Rood</em></strong> is one of the Christian poems in the corpus of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_literature" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Old English literature</a> and an example of the genre of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">dream</a> poetry. Like most <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Old English</a> poetry, it is written in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliterative_verse" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">alliterative verse</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rood" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Rood</em></a> is from the Old English word <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rod#Old_English" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>rōd</em></a> 'pole', or more specifically '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifix" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">crucifix</a>'. Preserved in the 10th-century <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vercelli_Book" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Vercelli Book</a>, the poem may be as old as the 8th-century <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthwell_Cross" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ruthwell Cross</a>, and is considered as one of the oldest works of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_literature" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Old English literature</a>.</p><br><p>-From Wikipedia: </p><br><hr><p style="color:grey;font-size:0.75em;"> See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
