Rood is an old word for a type of Christian cross, bearing a lower cross-bar as well as the main upper cross-bar.

Dietrich makes four main arguments: one, the theme of both poems is the cross, and more importantly, in both poems, the cross suffers with Christ ; two, in " Elene " Cynewulf seems to make clear references to the same cross in Dream of the Rood ; three, in " Elene " and his other poems Cynewulf usually speaks of himself, which makes it quite possible that the dreamer in Dream of the Rood is none other than Cynewulf himself ; and finally four, " In both poems the author represents himself as old, having lost joys or friends and as ready to depart.

The Rood is carved from the old oak bell frame from the tower.

Since the 1870s, there was debate in the council over the housing of the borough offices: all departments were currently scattered around the town, making co-ordination and timely response fairly difficult, with the old Audit House opposite Holy Rood Church now being totally inadequate.

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.

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.

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.

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, an Old English unit of area, equal to quarter of an acre

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

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

The monk who opened the door immediately calmed his worries about his reception: `` I speak English '', the old man said, `` but I do not hear it very well ''.

For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).

* The Star-Spangled Banner's tune was adapted from an old English drinking song by John Stafford Smith called " To Anacreon in Heaven ".

The English translation renders this as " My dear old Getafix || How good to see you here ", with the reply " Aha, an Alexandrine ".

Common suggestions are that they are old English breeds introduced by the early whalers, or by Captain Cook or other early explorers.

159 ) adopts the old English Common-Law definition of affray, with the substitution of actual disturbance of the peace for causing terror to the lieges.

When AA was ported to the English Electric KDF9 computer, the character set was changed to ISO and that compiler has been recovered from an old paper tape by the Edinburgh Computer History Project and is available online, as is a high-quality scan of the original Edinburgh version of the Atlas Autocode manual.

The Catholic Encyclopaedia make the point that the oath and the penalties were so severe that it stopped the efforts of the Gallicanizing party among the English Catholics, who had been ready to offer forms of submission similar to the old oath of Allegiance, which was condemned anew about this time by Pope Innocent X.

The club entered the Football League in 1921 with the formation of the old Third Division ( North ); after haunting the lower reaches of English football for forty years, they eventually resigned from the League in 1962, due to financial problems, and folded in 1965.

An early professed empiricist, Thomas Hobbes, known as an eccentric denizen of the court of Charles II of England ( an " old bear "), published in 1651 Leviathan, a political treatise written during the English civil war, containing an early manifesto in English of rationalism.

For a compilation album of the Glenmark duo Gemini, Andersson had Björn Ulvaeus write new Swedish lyrics for the re-recording of two old songs ; Ulvaeus also wrote new English lyrics to older Swedish language songs for opera singer Anne Sofie von Otter tribute album " I Let The Music Speak ".

An old brick wall in English bond laid with alternating courses of headers and stretchers

The old established form of English and, after the Act of Union, British conservatism, was the Tory Party.

Another theory relates the word to the old French “ maillier ”, meaning “ to hammer ” ( a cognate of the modern English word “ malleable ”).

However, this rule did not allow such suits to bind similarly situated absent parties, which rendered the rule almost entirely useless and was a direct reflection of Story's inability to understand the old English Chancery precedents.

The English students are telling their foreign teacher that the slang is a drag and something for old people.

As of 2007, old encyclopedias whose copyright has expired, such as the 1911 edition of Britannica, are also the only free content English encyclopedias released in print form.

Another example in English is donkey replacing the old Indo-European-derived word ass.

Many English Parliamentarians had suspicions regarding such a move, because they feared that setting up a new kingdom might destroy the old English traditions which had bound the English monarchy.

In relation the beauty of the Norse elves, some further evidence is given by old English words such as ælfsciene (" elf-beautiful "), used of seductively beautiful Biblical women in the Old English poems Judith and Genesis A.

Sharp sought " old world " English and Scottish ballads passed down to the region's inhabitants from their British ancestors.