Abstract
ABSTRACT This article identifies and analyzes new evidence for the theory that The Dream of the Rood is a product of composite authorship. An examination of the attestations of the word hæleð in the corpus of Old English poetry reveals that vocative uses of this word are found only in The Order of the World, Judith, Andreas, Elene, and the second half of The Dream of the Rood. The restriction of the vocative use of hæleð to these works is shown to substantiate the theory of composite authorship for The Dream of the Rood and associate the poem’s second half with the Cynewulfian school of poetic composition.
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