Cursor Mundi
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Cursor Mundi (Latin, "Runner of the World") is a lengthy (around 30,000 lines) religious history written around 1300 AD by an anonymous cleric. It was extremely popular in its time.
The poem, written in early Middle English, retells the history of the world as described in the Christian Bible, with additional legendary material. It contains nearly 30,000 lines of eight-syllable couplets. The work is linguistically important as a solid record of the Midlands English dialect of the era, and is therefore the most-often quoted single work in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Cursor Mundi interpolates material from hagiographic sources, including The Golden Legend, various Latin legendary cycles. Its description of the origins of the Tree of the Cross incorporates two different legendary sources.