Crist I

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Christ I (also known as Christ A or (The) Advent Lyrics) is a fragmentary collection of Old English poems on the coming of Jesus as preserved in the Exeter Book. In its present state, the poem comprises 439 lines in twelve distinct sections. In the assessment of Edward B. Irving Jr, "two masterpieces stand out of the mass of Anglo-Saxon religious poetry: The Dream of the Rood and the sequence of liturgical lyrics in the Exeter Book ... known as Christ I". The topic of the poem is Advent, the time period in the annual liturgical cycle leading up to the anniversary of the coming of Jesus, a period of great spiritual and symbolic significance within the Christian churches — for some in early medieval Europe a time of fasting and the subject of a sermon by Gregory the Great (AD 590-604). The Old English lyrics of Christ I, playing off the Latin antiphons, reflect on this period of symbolic preparation.

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