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The Cross as Psychopomp: The Dream of the Rood, Lines 135–44

Abstract One striking feature of the iconography of The Dream of the Rood is that in the conclusion of the poem the Dreamer speaks of the Cross as a “psychopomp”, a spiritual guide who will lead the Dreamer to joy in heaven. No convincing sources or parallels for this conception have been cited in the tradition of commentary on the Old English poem, but there are broad parallels for this conception in homiletic tradition, which seem to have inspired some prayers in liturgical texts which explicitly speak of the Cross as a psychopomp. These prayers thus provide a close parallel and arguably a source for this motif in The Dream of the Rood.