This stuff is just weird by Brenna Stringfellow

While reading I noticed a connection(drumroll please) it’s God... obviously. I’m not here to talk about God though. This stuff was weird. Actually no the people were weird with how they perceived everything. 

In The Ecclesiastical History King Edwin pretty much committed treason with the strange person he doesn’t even know. It’s one thing when you make a deal to be freed from your enemies, but when you start making deals to ascend to the throne and be aiming better king if he is to, “Submit to him.” Him may be God I don’t know, but it sound like Wolsey making a deal in The Master and Margarita. Then Begu started to see the roof open and had a vision where Abbess Hilda is seen going into heaven. When the brothers arrive to tell of her death they’re just like yeah we already knew about that thanks to Begu and her visions. How is that just not weird?? Caedmon seems like the cooler guy in this because all he has is just a dream which causes him to start singing hymns. 

It’s time to get back to weirdness. Don’t get me wrong, “The Dream of the Rood” was a good passage, but I can’t be the only one questioning why in the world the tree that Christ died on gets talked about more in this than Christ who actually died on it. He does talk about Christ, but I find there to be more a focus on the tree, the never really was referred to as a cross, which is once again really weird. 

This Chaucer poem drove me bonkers, why? Because I read the original version not even realizing the translated version was right next to it. In the original version, the only thing that made sense was, “Draw unto Him, and pray in general.” The translated version is good though because I found it an encouragement on how to live life, which makes it my favorite. 

I commented on Hannah and Anna Grace’s post.