Many Anglo-Saxon poems use the characteristics of heroism and imagery, but it seems that the way the theme is treated in the story of the Crucifixion is unique only to Christian poetry. Using a battle as a metaphor, Christ and the cross would be considered the warriors, “whose deaths are victories, and whose burials are preludes to the triumph of their resurrections” (Huppe 278). In The Dream of the Rood, the story of Christ's death, burial, and resurrection are different from the tales we are so accustomed to hearing in the Bible. To emphasize the enormous victory in the story of the crucifixion, the writer describes Christ as a young warrior who bravely enters. to defeat sin This is a very common theme in medieval literature. Where the warrior goes to defeat a particular evil The words used to describe Christ are "the young warrior", "the Lord of mankind" and "the Lord". From