@misc{Neubauer_Łukasz_“They_2019,
 author={Neubauer, Łukasz},
 volume={120},
 editor={Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences},
 copyright={Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license},
 journal={Acta Poloniae Historica},
 address={Warszawa},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2019},
 publisher={Instytut Historii PAN},
 language={eng},
 abstract={The Dream of the Rood constitutes one of the most intriguing products of Old English literature, both in terms of its highly imaginative, heroicised depiction of Christ and the Cross and on account of its numerous Christian and pre-Christian intersections. One of the most arresting issues in it, however, particularly as regards the poem’s cultural background, is its mention of a sorhleoð (l. 67), the ‘sorrow-song’, or ‘dirge’ that the disciples begin to sing once they have placed the body of the Saviour in the sepulchre. Given that there is no mention of any songs being chanted at the time of Christ’s burial in the canonical Gospels, it seems rational to suggest that the anonymous poet must have supplied this ‘missing’ information on the basis of his own, perhaps somewhat antiquarian, knowledge of the burial customs in Anglo-Saxon England.},
 title={“They Began to Sing Him a Sorhleoð”: Possible Echoes of the Anglo-Saxon Funerary Rites in ‘The Dream of the Rood’},
 type={Text},
 URL={http://rcin.org.pl/Content/116510/PDF/WA303_144441_A296-APH-R-120_Neubauer.pdf},
 keywords={Jesus Christ, Gospels, elegy, Old English poetry, Dream of the Rood, Beowulf, Christian poetry, English (Old) - history and criticism, Jesus Christ - Crucifixion - in literature, burial customs, Anglo-Saxons - funeral customs and rites},
}