Excerpt from Legends of the Holy Rood: Symbols of the Passion and Cross-Poems; In Old English of the Eleventh, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries These prefatory remarks to the Invention of the Cross in the Golden Legend (see p. 154) suggest the order in which a summary of the legends contained in the following pages should be written. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.