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

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.

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.

Two of Cynewulf's signed poems were discovered in the Vercelli Book, which includes Cynewulf's holy cross poem " Elene " as well as Dream of the Rood.

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 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.

The Holy Rood is said to have foretold Harold's defeat at Hastings: on the way there from the Battle of Stamford Bridge he stopped off at Waltham Abbey to pray, and the legend is that the cross " bowed down " off the wall as he did so.

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 ".

More precisely, the Rood was the True Cross, the specific wooden cross used in Christ's crucifixion.

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.

During the 19th century, scientist-writers such as Michel Eugène Chevreul, Ogden Rood and David Sutter wrote treatises on color, optical effects and perception.

Chevreul based his theories on Newton's thoughts on the mixing of light, but Rood based his writings on the work of Helmholtz.

* Five Points is adjacent to Holly Village on Rood and Grange Hall Roads just south of where Quick and Fagan Roads merger to become Rood Road ( Elevation: 928 ft ./ 283 m .).

The Dream of the Rood was written before circa AD 700, when excerpts were carved in runes on the Ruthwell Cross.

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.

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.

There are sections from “ The Dream of the Rood ” that are found on the Ruthwell Cross that dates back to the 8th century.

To this day the authorship of Dream of the Rood remains unknown ; however with the Ruthwell Cross giving the poem a rough time period in which it could have been written, scholars have been able to make educated suggestions on possible authors.

Thus, for instance, in “ The Dream of the Rood ” Christ is presented as a " heroic warrior, eagerly leaping on the Cross to do battle with death ; the Cross is a loyal retainer who is painfully and paradoxically forced to participate in his Lord's execution.

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.

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Another explanation is that the statues of St John and Our Lady which, in Christian Churches, flank the Crucifix on the Altar reredos or the Rood screen were, during Holy Week, bound with rushes to cover them.

Other examples of this dialect are the Runes on the Ruthwell Cross from 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.

During the Safavid period due to the construction of a bridge on the Zayandeh Rood ( river ), Varjan was renamed Polavarjan and thence to Falavarjan.

Prior to 1950 the schoolhouse for the district was in several other locations, including on Rood Bridge Road at Burkhalter Road east of the current building site.

The rood screen would originally have been surmounted by a rood loft carrying the Great Rood, a sculptural representation of the Crucifixion.

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 screens developed in the 13th century, as a wooden or stone screens, also usually separating the chancel or choir from the nave, upon which the rood now stood.

In the Middle Ages, the church was known as the church of Holy Rood or Holy Cross, because it owned a great ' golden rood ' which was an object of pilgrimage and veneration until it was destroyed in the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the sixteenth century.

The east window of the chancel and west window of the nave were added in the 15th century. The church was restored by Clapton Crabb Rolfe in 1896 ; he added the south porch, south window and north aisle The church's new reredos, altar tables, Rood and rood screen, pulpit, lectern and much new seating were carved for Rolfe by Harry Hems of Exeter.

* Rood screen, a partition in a church which separates the chancel from the nave

He is interred at the Cemetery of the Holy Rood, Garden City, New York.

Category: Burials at the Cemetery of the Holy Rood

This Holy Rood or Cross was installed at the church and soon became the subject of pilgrimage.

Source: Dr. David S. Rood, linguist at the University of Colorado, who has been studying the Wichita language since 1965.

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On Eastcheap's north side is St. Margaret Pattens Church at the corner with Rood Lane.

It was at one time plausible to believe that Cynewulf was author of the Riddles of the Exeter Book, the Phoenix, the Andreas, and the Guthlac ; even famous unassigned poems such as the Dream of the Rood, the Harrowing of Hell, and the Physiologus have at one time been ascribed to him.

Other examples of his work include the convent of the Sacred Heart at Hammersmith, St John's Beaumont, the Church of the Holy Rood at Watford, and St Luke's Church, Chiddingstone ( 1897 ).

* Stained Glass Windows at Holy Rood, Holybourne, Hampshire

People have worshipped at the Church of the Holy Rood in Buckland Newton since the 13th century.

He died at his home, Rood Ashton House in Wiltshire, in September 1924, aged 70, and was succeeded by his 13-year-old grandson Walter.

In 1978, Douglas R. Parks, David S. Rood, and Raymond J. DeMallie engaged in systematic linguistic research at the Sioux and Assiniboine reservations to establish the precise dialectology of the Sioux language.

Category: Burials at the Cemetery of the Holy Rood

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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.