Its text comes from the Vercelli Book and it was probably written at the end of the seventh century. The prelude describes how the title object, glittering with gold and gems, changes its appearance to something unadorned and bloodied, and then back again to an object of triumph. The unknown poet of this work employed prosopopeia to make the title object speak and relate how it was cut down and transformed in to a figure of Christ's suffering. The object then relates how it was later rediscovered and glorified. FTP, ide
Its text comes from the Vercelli Book and it was probably written at the end of the seventh century. The prelude describes how the title object, glittering with gold and gems, changes its appearance to something unadorned and bloodied, and then back again to an object of triumph. The unknown poet of this work employed prosopopeia to make the title object speak and relate how it was cut down and transformed in to a figure of Christ's suffering. The object then relates how it was later rediscovered and glorified. FTP, identify this medieval English poem that relates the story of the Cross.
Its text comes from the Vercelli Book and it was probably written at the end of the seventh century.
The {Dream of the Rood}