Legends of the holy rood; Symbols of the passion and cross poems. In Old English of the eleventh, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries. Edited from Mss. in the British Museum and Bodleian Libraries, with introduction, translations, and glossarial index, by Richard Morris.

                                
                                  ¶ Þo wende þe Angel· to þulke treo·, an Appel þer-of he nom;
                                
                                  Þreo Curnels he tok him þer-of seþþe·, þo he to him com,
                                  Line 88 
                                
                                  And bad him þulke Curnels· legge vndur his fader tonge
                                
                                  Whon he weore ded· and i-buried·, to loke what þer-of spronge:
                                
                                  ¶ Seth· wende a-ȝeyn as he com·, þe wey was wel y-sene,
                                
                                  For þe stappes weore· al for-brend·, and þe oþur wey al grene:
                                  Line 92 
                                
                                  Þo he was hom a-ȝein i-come· his fader he fond ded;
                                
                                  He dude þe Curnels vndur his tonge·, as þe Angel him bed,
                                
                                  And seþþe buriede him, as riht was·, in þe Vaal of Ebron,
                                
                                  And bi-swonk his owne mede·, þo he nuste non oþer whon:
                                  Line 96 
                                
                                  ¶ Wiþ-Inne a fewe ȝer þeraftur· þis Curnels bi-gonne to springe;
                                
                                  Þreo smale ȝerden þer woxen·, feire þorwh alle þinge;
                                
                                  Þo heo weoren i-woxen to þe lengþe· of an Elne, ich wene,
                                
                                  In þulke stat heo stoden longe· and euere-more grene,
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                                  ¶ Forte Moyses þe prophete· eode her in þis londe
                                
                                  To leren þe folk of I[s]rael·, and he fond þe ȝerden stonde:
                                
                                  "Lo her," he seide, "gret toknynge· of þe holy Trinite,
                                
                                  Of Fader· and Sone· and Holigost·: of þeose ȝerden þre":
                                  Line 104 
                                
                                  Vp he hem nom· wiþ gret honour·, in feir cloþ he hem wond;
                                
                                  A· swote smel· þer com a-non out of·, þat smelde in-to al þat lond:
                                
                                  To Confermen bet his lawe· he bar hem forþ in his hond;
                                
                                  Vche seek mon· þat þer-to hopede· his hele a-non he fond:
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                                  To teche þat folk þe rihte lawe· þe ȝerden wiþ him he beer,

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Title: Legends of the holy rood; Symbols of the passion and cross poems. In Old English of the eleventh, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries. Edited from Mss. in the British Museum and Bodleian Libraries, with introduction, translations, and glossarial index, by Richard Morris.
Author: Morris, Richard, ed. 1833-1894,
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Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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