Considered one of the most beautiful of all Old English poems is Dream of the Rood, contained in the Vercelli Book.

This cross is remarkable for its sculpture and inscriptions in Latin and Old English, some in Anglo-Saxon runes, which include excerpts from The Dream of the Rood, an Old English poem.

Accounts of the symbel are preserved in the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf ( lines 489-675 and 1491 – 1500 ), Dream of the Rood and Judith, Old Saxon Heliand, and the Old Norse Lokasenna as well as other Eddic and Saga texts, such as in the Heimskringla account of the funeral ale held by King Sweyn, or in the Fagrskinna.

In Old English there is The Dream of the Rood, from which lines are found on the Ruthwell Cross, making it the only surviving fragment of Northumbrian Old English from early Medieval Scotland.

The Old English poem Dream of the Rood mentions the finding of the cross and the beginning of the tradition of the veneration of its relics.

As far as we can tell from what has been preserved, the art of the scop was directed mostly towards epic poetry ; the surviving verse in Old English consists of the epic Beowulf, religious verse in epic formats such as the Dream of the Rood, heroic lays of battle, and stern meditations on mortality and the transience of earthly glory.

The Dream of the Rood is one of the earliest Christian poems in the corpus of Old English literature and an example of the genre of dream poetry.

Rood is from the Old English rod " pole ", specifically " crucifix ".

Old English religious poetry includes the poem Christ by Cynewulf and the poem The Dream of the Rood, preserved in both manuscript form and on the Ruthwell Cross.

The cathedral library holds the famous Vercelli Book — an Old English manuscript which includes the celebrated alliterative poem The Dream of the Rood, the 8th-century Laws of the Lombards, and other early manuscripts.

This late 7th / early 8th century cross is remarkable for its runic inscription, which contains excerpts from The Dream of the Rood, an Old English poem, which he discovered in his parish and restored in 1818, and on which volumes have since been written.

Rood is an archaic word for pole, from Old English rōd " pole ", specifically " cross ", from Proto-Germanic * rodo, cognate to Old Saxon rōda, Old High German ruoda " rod ".

Rood was originally the only Old English word for the instrument of Jesus Christ's death.

The word remains in use in some names, such as Holyrood Palace and the Old English poem The Dream of the Rood.

In Old English poetry, the Dream of the Rood, a meditation on Christ's crucifixion which adapts Germanic heroic imagery and applies it to Jesus, is one of the earliest extant monuments of Old English literature.

There may be inscriptions, in the runic or Roman scripts, and Latin or Old English, most famously at Ruthwell, where some of the poem the Dream of the Rood is inscribed together with Latin texts ; more often donors are commemorated.

The Ruthwell cross features the largest figurative reliefs found on any surviving Anglo-Saxon cross — which are virtually the largest surviving Anglo-Saxon reliefs of any sort — and has inscriptions in both Latin and, unusually for a Christian monument, the runic alphabet, the latter containing lines similar to lines 39-64 of The Dream of the Rood, an Old English poem, which were possibly added at a later date.

* Ó Carragáin, Éamonn, Ritual and the Rood: Liturgical Images and the Old English Poems of the Dream of the Rood Tradition, University of Toronto Press Incorporated, 2005.

* Rood, an old English unit equal to quarter an acre

In his interest in the literary arts, Casken reached back to medieval poetry, which can be found in The Dream of the Rood, the original Anglo Saxon text adapted by the composer and set in modern English.

The site of the castle was a deliberate affront to the defeated English because a black flint cross ( the " Holy Rood ") was said to have been discovered atop the hill earlier in the eleventh century by the village blacksmith.

* Rood ( Scots ), a unit of land measurement formerly used in south-eastern Scotland

The area under the tower has made into the Chapel of the Holy Rood and contains a reredos, an altar and a credence table which were adapted in 1978 from a rood screen of 1890 by Bodley which was taken from Dunstable Priory.

; Rood: one quarter of an acre, confusingly sometimes called an acre itself in many ancient contexts.

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A unit of Federal troops, the 6th Ohio Infantry, was present, and adopted " Old Glory " as their motto.

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Lynn remains home to a division of General Electric Aviation, a major employer ; the West Lynn Creamery ( now part of Dean Foods's Garelick Farms unit ); C. L. Hauthaway & Sons, a polymer producer ; Old Neighborhood Foods, a meat packer ; Lynn Manufacturing, a maker of combustion chambers for the oil and gas heating industry ; Sterling Machine Co .; and Durkee-Mower, makers of " Marshmallow Fluff ".

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Selznick reportedly spared no expense: the set for the courtroom scenes exactly duplicated a courtroom in London's Old Bailey, photographed, with permission, by unit manager Fred Ahern, and built in 85 days at the cost of $ 80, 000.

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