Significados de holy rood en inglés

If you slay him not, Alpin, then, by the holy rood, I myself will do so.

And at last he took her hand and swore by the holy rood that he would be true to her.

His poetry is literally stamped with the mark of the Holy Rood.

Holy Rood!' The Normans then came sweeping down the hill to attack the English.

In this year was found the Holy Rood.

Master Porges, by the Holy Rood!

It is a moot point whether the "Elene" or the "Dream of the Holy Rood" came first.

Holy rood, holy cross.

The year before, Heraclius {102} had taken away the Holy Rood and the treasures of the churches to Constantinople.

It contains twenty-two sermons in Anglo-Saxon, and six poems, among which is our beautiful "Dream of the Holy Rood."

O Lord, let the Blood which flowed on that very day down the Holy Rood blot out my sins, atone for my transgressions.

The portions of the "Dream of the Holy Rood" which are on the Ruthwell Cross (see Chapter IV) are carved in runes.

The passion-flower has been termed Holy Rood flower, and it is the ecclesiastical emblem of Holy Cross Day, for, according to the familiar couplet:-

"I Oswald, Archbishop of York, confirm all these words through the holy rood on which Christ was crucified."

It takes place at ten o'clock every night between Holy Rood (September 27) and Shrovetide, but somehow the reason for the observance has been forgotten.

"At the mouth of the pass," said the scout, kneeling, "there are a monk bearing the holy rood, and a chief, unarmed.