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For Anglo-Saxon most important virtues were:

Loyalty

courage

generosity

Christians were the first ppl to write down oral legends

elegy – tell the sadness of exile or separation from one's lord or community, it's about passing the time

rood – cross

'The dream of the rood'

1 sb may have a vision of a cross

2 sb desires the cross

• How many speakers are there?

  • 2

    • A dreamer who dreams of the cross - is a sinner 'stained with sins' (alliteration – repetition of the same syllable)

    • A tree/cross itself – It speaks to us (personification), it's given a voice, obedience, sensitivity, it shares the agony of the Christ

  • The cross

• Christ – warrior, lord of the heaven's, hero, ruler,

• Christ the warrior, it's a battle on the cross, he's not weak

• Relation between Jesus and cross

'The Wanderer'

It's an elegy

He's life is not in his hands, there's a faith which is fully fixed

2 speakers – narrator and the wanderer

gnosis = knowledge

gnomic line – the lines which provide some knowledge 'words of wisdom'

Ubi sunt? - where are they?

Source of a sorrow – he lost his friends

'The whale's roaet',

'the life-house'=body

find it and bring the text