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| In which book can 'The Dream of the Rood' be found? (and when was it written?) |
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Vercelli Book, late C10th
West Saxon |
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| Where else is the text found? (and when was that written?) |
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Ruthwell Cross, c. 730
Northumbria
Runes |
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| What is the poem in response to? |
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| The Synod/Council of Hatfield of 680 at which the Anglo-Saxon church rejected Monothelism |
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| Describe the poem in 5 words |
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Riddlic
Penitential
Eschatalogical
Evangelical
Homiletic |
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| What does being written in 1st person do for the poem? |
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| Gives it a sense of urgency |
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| What rhetorical technique does the poem use? |
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Prosopopeia
(also used in many Riddles - Exeter Book Riddle 30 talks about a cross specifically) |
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| Which line (maybe) has half missing? |
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Line 76
"freondas gefrunon" |
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| Paradoxes and Dichotomies? |
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Mortality vs. Godliness
Passive vs. Active
Plangent/Victim vs. Heroic |
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| How many different ways of talking about the Rood are there? |
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| How many different ways of referring to God/Jesus are there? |
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| How many different ways of referring to Jesus' death are there? |
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| Ambiguous word beginning with F? |
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fah
can mean guilty or decorated or hostile |
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| Ambiguous word beginning with W? |
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wAEtan
means moisture i.e. could be tears or blood |
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| Word for ironic understatement |
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| Ambiguous word beginning with B? |
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bledum
wealth, glory, leaf |
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elne micle
Instrumental phrase
"with great zeal"
Christ
Cross
Dreamer |
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| Phrases linking trees and apostles? |
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"atyred of stefne minum"
removed from my roots |
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| Where does the Harrowing of Hell appear? |
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| What links Mary and the Rood? |
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They both suffer for Jesus
Both above their species
Both forgive sins
Both mediators
Birth and Death of Creator |
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| Which word links it to Garden of Eden? |
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byrigde
"tasted"
Fall and Ascension |
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| What kind of lexis is used? |
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