History

'The best of trees began to speak words:
it was long ago – I remember it yet –
that I was cut down at the edge of a forest,
removed from my root.'

In the Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Dream of the Rood', the Cross remembers the Crucifixion: https://t.co/fbBEwcnTui pic.twitter.com/zruk0dzeAh

— Eleanor Parker (@ClerkofOxford) April 18, 2025