rood-tree


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Noun 1. [画像:rood-tree - representation of the cross on which Jesus died]rood-tree - representation of the cross on which Jesus died
Cross - a representation of the structure on which Jesus was crucified; used as an emblem of Christianity or in heraldry
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This tradition is reflected in various medieval Latin and vernacular legends of the Cross.(20) In Old English it is represented by the so-called History of the Holy Rood-Tree found in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 343.(21) Although this version does not include the early history of the wood of the Cross, in which Seth is sent to Paradise and given tree pips from the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, it does cover the story from when Moses finds the three rods up to the discovery of the Cross by Helena, mother of the emperor Constantine.
(20) See History of the Holy Rood-Tree: A Twelfth Century Version of the Cross-Legend, ed.

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