The Ruthwell Cross and its Texts : : A New Reconstruction and an Edition of The Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem / / Kerstin Majewski.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Majewski, Kerstin,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde , 132
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXVI, 397 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; List of Tables --; List of Abbreviations and Symbols --; Acknowledgements --; Review of Literature --; Introduction --; Part I: The Ruthwell Cross and its Texts --; 1 The Ruthwell Cross: An Overview --; 2 The Cross in Text and Stone: Situating the Ruthwell Cross in a Particular Historical Context --; 3 The Challenge to Situate The Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem in a Literary Context --; 4 Text, Material, and Memory --; 5 The Figure Sculpture and the Roman Inscriptions --; 6 The Runic Inscriptions on the Ruthwell Cross --; 7 A New Reconstruction of The Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem --; Part II: An Edition of The Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem --; The Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem --; Notes --; Glossary --; 8 Summary and Conclusion --; 9 Appendices --; 10 Bibliography --; 11 Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110785449; 9783110766820; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110992960; 9783110992939
• ISSN: 1866-7678
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110785449
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kerstin Majewski.

The Ruthwell Cross is one of the finest Anglo-Saxon high crosses that have come down to us. The longest epigraphic text in the Old English Runes Corpus is inscribed on two sides of the monument: it forms an alliterative poem, in which the Cross itself narrates the crucifixion episode. Parts of the inscription are irrevocably lost. This study establishes a historico-cultural context for the Ruthwell Cross’s texts and sculptures. It shows that The Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem is an integral part of a Christian artefact but also an independent text. Although its verses match closely with lines of The Dream of the Rood in the Vercelli Book, a comparative analysis gives new insight into their complex relationship. An annotated transliteration of the runes offers intriguing information for runologists. Detailed linguistic and metrical analyses finally yield a new reconstruction of the lost runes. All in all, this study takes a fresh look at the Ruthwell Cross and provides the first scholarly edition of the reconstructed Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem—one of the earliest religious poems of Anglo-Saxon England. It will be of interest to scholars and students of historical linguistics, medieval English literature and culture, art history, and archaeology.