#ruthwell

Discovering Albion – day 5: ‘Don and Wen do Gretna…’

Carlisle Castle. Image: http://www.edgeguide.co.uk We should probably have stopped at Carlisle. Well, for more than just a supermarket to stock the car with biscuits and suchlike. It has another of those thousand year old castles… and another cathedral that used to be the priory… and Roman remains… We would, to be fair, have needed more than the time we had to do it justice. Long before the…

Discovering Albion – day 5: ‘Don and Wen do Gretna…’

Carlisle Castle. Image: http://www.edgeguide.co.uk We should probably have stopped at Carlisle. Well, for more than just a supermarket to stock the car with biscuits and suchlike. It has another of those thousand year old castles… and another cathedral that used to be the priory… and Roman remains… We would, to be fair, have needed more than the time we had to do it justice. Long before the…

Dream of the Rood

Girded him then God Almighty When he would Step on the gallows, Fore all mankind Mindfast, fearless, Bow me durst I not.

Rood was I reared now Rich king heaving, The lord of light-realms; Lean me I durst not. Us both they basely mocked and handled, Was I there with blood bedabbled, Gushing grievous from his dear side When his ghost he had uprendered.

Christ was on rood-tree, But fast from afar Hi…

Discovering Albion – day 5: ‘Don and Wen do Gretna…’

Carlisle Castle. Image: http://www.edgeguide.co.uk

We should probably have stopped at Carlisle. Well, for more than just a supermarket to stock the car with biscuits and suchlike. It has another of those thousand year old castles… and another cathedral that used to be the priory… and Roman remains… We would, to be fair, have needed more than the time we had to do it justice. Long before the…

Free Church of Scotland (article by Rev John Ross)

On this Sunday in 1843 the first Free Church services were held.

The Free Church started with no churches, no manses, no schools, but they did have the people.

At Morningside in Edinburgh, Dr. Chalmers opened his own house to use as a church. He stood midway up the staircase and preached to a disjointed congregation scattered into different rooms. All could hear, but only half could see the…

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see my earlier post:

http://sandystrachan.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/rev-henry-duncan/

  http://www.savingsbanksmuseum.co.uk/

This cross is in Ruthwell, Scotland. It's 18 feet high and has survived hundreds of years. Around part of the four sides of the cross, parts of "The Dream of the Rood" (a famous poem that was translated into Old English) are written in the Runic alphabet. Check it out, along with "The Dream of the Rood."