Brussels Cross [SEP] material used
Brussels Cross
The Brussels Cross or Drahmal Cross is an Anglo-Saxon cross-reliquary of the early 11th century, now in the treasury of the St. Michael and St. Gudula Cathedral, Brussels, that bears engraved images and an inscription in Old English. 
Description.
Badly damaged and with its once jewelled front missing, the Brussels Cross takes the form of a large piece of cross-shaped wood covered with a silver plate bearing medallions engraved with the evangelists' symbols at the end of the arms and an "
within a wider tradition of 'speaking objects' in Anglo-Saxon culture and have much in common with poems such as "The Dream of the Rood" and "The Husband's Message" and with artefacts such as the Alfred Jewel or the Brussels Cross, which endow inanimate things with first-person voices.
The Exeter Book riddles are varied in theme, but they are all used to engage and challenge the readers mentally. By representing the familiar, material world from an oblique angle, many not only draw on