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Stone, skin, and silver : a translation of The dream of the rood

English (英語)

Litho Press co. (Midleton, Co Cork, Ireland)

1999

2011-05-11

本資料のデジタル化は、著者 Richard J. Kelly 氏（当時・神戸大学国際文化学部教授、2009年より近畿大学文芸学部教授）及び出版社 Litho Press (Midleton, Co Cork, Ireland) のご協力により実現しました。/Digitalized by a kind permission and assistance of the author Professor Richard J. Kelly and the publisher Litho Press. (Midleton, Co Cork, Ireland) Professor Kelly has moved from Kobe University to Kinki University April 2009, and he is Head of the Department of British and American Literature and Cultural Studies at Kinki University since October 2010.

The Dream of the Rood is one of the most remarkable of all Old English poems. At its centre is a speech spoken by the Cross upon which Christ was crucified. In a striking development of figurative and metaphorical linkages which resembles the technique used in some of the Old English Riddles, the tree tells how it obeyed its Lord like a dutiful thane. Fifteen lines somewhat similar to this speech are carved in Anglo-Saxon in runic characters upon the narrow sides of the Ruthwell Cross, which stands six metres high at Ruthwell, near Dumfries in Scotland. This great stone monument was erected circa A.D. 701; it is covered in panels, carved artistically in deep relief, with subjects drawn from the New Testament, each surrounded by a text in Latin. (Richard J. Kelly, 1999)

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