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Archive for the 'Brussels Cross' Category

The Brussels Cross [all]

Posted by mdrout on 15th February 2008

A short poem found on the Burssels Cross, which supposedly contains the largest extant fragments of the True Cross.  The Brussel’s Cross was made by one Drahmal.  The Anglo-Saxon inscription is written in Roman letters, not runes.

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