Talk:The Dream of the Rood

Kemble

Almost all the pages related to the Ruthwell cross seem to the suggest the same thing regarding Kemble's interpretation not being adequate, etc. Where is the source? Almost every source other than wikipedia on the internet and fairly recent books on Runes as well as the Norton and other anthologies confirm that the ruhwell cross contains excepts from the dor poem. It seems that just one person has edited all these related pages but cited absolutely no sources as to why "this reading is not acceptable today without reservation."--72.85.23.244 02:23, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Runic text

I have removed a section which attempted to display the Runic inscriptions in a text-format. The text was not displaying correct and appeared as a series of boxes on my computer, leading me to believe that others would have a similar problem displaying the text. Since the runes are shown in an image to the right of where the text was, I don't think anything is lost by removing the text. Rellman 19:51, 25 February 2006 (UTC)Rellman

Yeah I had the same problem here, it didn't display correctly (lots of "????") -- Stbalbach 00:38, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Style?

This sounds like a term paper, even down to the structure of the "works cited" section. Perhaps those citations can be moved in as links to the actual text... as a starter to fixing up this article?Bearnfæder (talk) 08:37, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Done prelim work, but just a little bit. Still can't find what Hunter refers to (Peter Hunter Blair??), or where Blair and Swanton are in the article. Since the same editor put both (Hunter 2) and "Blair, Hunter," but at different times in an edit-spree over the course of a day (see here), I'm afraid of saying they're the same, as it would presume that a single, focused author with background knowledge did not know the difference between a middle and last name--especially when no other citations were messed up. Still, Blair's citation is woefully inadequate, so it may be that user 149.164.158.17 was just slipshod.--Akhenaten0 (talk) 20:18, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Norse

I could be totally ignorant, but does this really fall under the scope of the Norse history WikiProject? --Jp07 (talk) 00:01, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Briefly looked over the article and saw "Yggdrasil" in "see also," so it makes a little more sense (if Yggdrasil is truly related). Would someone like to shed some light on this? --Jp07 (talk) 00:58, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

It looks like OR to me, so I removed it. I don't know why it should be part of a norse project thought. Ekwos (talk) 07:20, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

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The Pagan vs Christian paragraph is written from a specifically Protestant perspective that is not acknowledged, and which is inappropriate to the religious meaning and thought of the first millenium. The article needs an Orthodox and Catholic comment, so labeled, as well as labelling of the Protestant opinions. The article contains a suggestion of idolatry, clearly reflecting an iconoclast point of view, together with an unstated acceptance of substitutionary atonement, legitimate to use if labeled, that totally obscures the point of Christ as victor over death. the interpretations paragraph selects the most absurd and irrelevant of gender issue criticism. A useful comparison would be the Liturgy of St Christostom or the Paschal Canon of the Orthodox, which expresses the same idea of Christ as victor over death. Cites from contemporanous religious writing could be added to set the poem and illustrate the religious sensibility and use of images of the period. Cyranorox (talk) 20:00, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

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Drabble Link to site but not target

Hello, The Margaret Drabble link (was it #17) to her Introduction to the V book features casino information. I tried the amend link provided on this page but it required a log in and so I'm out of my depth. Kind Regards, M. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PfPorlock (talk • contribs) 11:37, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Title

The poem is generally referred to as The Dream of the Rood, rather than the Dream of the Rood, and 'the' is included in the title throughout the article, so I don't know why the title of the page doesn't include 'the'. I also don't know how to change it.

Nazianzi (talk) 09:56, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Yes, moved. Johnbod (talk) 14:23, 6 October 2023 (UTC)