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class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Anglo-Saxon carved chest</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Franks_casket_03.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Franks_casket_03.jpg/350px-Franks_casket_03.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="233" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Franks_casket_03.jpg/525px-Franks_casket_03.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Franks_casket_03.jpg/700px-Franks_casket_03.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3888" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>The Franks Casket, as displayed in the <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a>; the front and lid</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>Franks Casket</b> (or the <b>Auzon Casket</b>) is a small <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglo-Saxon">Anglo-Saxon</a> whale's bone (not "whalebone" in the sense of <a href="/wiki/Baleen" title="Baleen">baleen</a>) <a href="/wiki/Chest_(furniture)" title="Chest (furniture)">chest</a> from the early 8th century, now in the <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a>. The casket is densely decorated with knife-cut narrative scenes in flat two-dimensional low-<a href="/wiki/Relief" title="Relief">relief</a> and with inscriptions mostly in <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_runes" title="Anglo-Saxon runes">Anglo-Saxon runes</a>. Generally thought to be of <a href="/wiki/Northumbria" title="Northumbria">Northumbrian</a> origin,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it is of unique importance for the insight it gives into early <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_art" title="Anglo-Saxon art">Anglo-Saxon art</a> and culture. Both identifying the images and interpreting the runic inscriptions has generated a considerable amount of scholarship.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Franks_Casket_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Franks_Casket_1.jpg/220px-Franks_Casket_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Franks_Casket_1.jpg/330px-Franks_Casket_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Franks_Casket_1.jpg/440px-Franks_Casket_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3888" data-file-height="2588" /></a><figcaption>Left side and top</figcaption></figure> <p>The imagery is very diverse in its subject matter and derivations, and includes a single Christian image, the <a href="/wiki/Adoration_of_the_Magi" title="Adoration of the Magi">Adoration of the Magi</a>, along with images derived from <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman history</a> (<a href="/wiki/Emperor_Titus" class="mw-redirect" title="Emperor Titus">Emperor Titus</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Roman_mythology" title="Roman mythology">Roman mythology</a> (<a href="/wiki/Romulus_and_Remus" title="Romulus and Remus">Romulus and Remus</a>), as well as a depiction of at least one legend indigenous to the <a href="/wiki/Germanic_peoples" title="Germanic peoples">Germanic peoples</a>: that of <a href="/wiki/Wayland_Smith" class="mw-redirect" title="Wayland Smith">Weyland the Smith</a>. It has also been suggested that there may be an episode from the <a href="/wiki/Sigurd" title="Sigurd">Sigurd</a> legend, an otherwise lost episode from the life of Weyland's brother <a href="/wiki/Agilaz" class="mw-redirect" title="Agilaz">Egil</a>, a Homeric legend involving <a href="/wiki/Achilles" title="Achilles">Achilles</a>, and perhaps even an allusion to the legendary founding of England by <a href="/wiki/Hengist_and_Horsa" title="Hengist and Horsa">Hengist and Horsa</a>. </p><p>The inscriptions "display a deliberate linguistic and alphabetic virtuosity; though they are mostly written in <a href="/wiki/Old_English" title="Old English">Old English</a> and in runes, they shift into Latin and the Roman alphabet; then back into runes while still writing Latin".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some are written upside down or back to front.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is named after a former owner, Sir <a href="/wiki/Augustus_Wollaston_Franks" title="Augustus Wollaston Franks">Augustus Wollaston Franks</a>, who gave it to the British Museum. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Franks_Casket&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Franks_Casket_right_panel_original_on_display_in_Bargello_Museum.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Franks_Casket_right_panel_original_on_display_in_Bargello_Museum.jpg/320px-Franks_Casket_right_panel_original_on_display_in_Bargello_Museum.jpg" decoding="async" width="320" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Franks_Casket_right_panel_original_on_display_in_Bargello_Museum.jpg/480px-Franks_Casket_right_panel_original_on_display_in_Bargello_Museum.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Franks_Casket_right_panel_original_on_display_in_Bargello_Museum.jpg/640px-Franks_Casket_right_panel_original_on_display_in_Bargello_Museum.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="1704" /></a><figcaption>Original of right panel, on display in <a href="/wiki/Bargello_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Bargello Museum">Bargello Museum</a>, Florence</figcaption></figure> <p>A monastic origin is generally accepted for the casket, which was perhaps made for presentation to an important secular figure, and <a href="/wiki/Wilfrid" title="Wilfrid">Wilfrid</a>'s foundation at <a href="/wiki/Ripon" title="Ripon">Ripon</a> has been specifically suggested.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The post-medieval history of the casket before the mid-19th century was unknown until relatively recently, when investigations by <a href="/wiki/William_Henry_James_Weale" class="mw-redirect" title="William Henry James Weale">W. H. J. Weale</a> revealed that the casket had belonged to the church of Saint-Julien, <a href="/wiki/Brioude" title="Brioude">Brioude</a> in <a href="/wiki/Haute_Loire" class="mw-redirect" title="Haute Loire">Haute Loire</a> (upper Loire region), France; it is possible that it was looted during the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was then in the possession of a family in <a href="/wiki/Auzon" title="Auzon">Auzon</a>, a village in Haute Loire. It served as a sewing box until the silver hinges and fittings joining the panels were traded for a silver ring. Without the support of these the casket fell apart. The parts were shown to a Professor Mathieu from nearby <a href="/wiki/Clermont-Ferrand" title="Clermont-Ferrand">Clermont-Ferrand</a>, who sold them to an antique shop in <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>, where they were bought in 1857 by Sir <a href="/wiki/Augustus_Wollaston_Franks" title="Augustus Wollaston Franks">Augustus Wollaston Franks</a>, who subsequently donated the panels in 1867 to the British Museum, where he was Keeper of the British and Medieval collections. The missing right end panel was later found in a drawer by the family in Auzon and sold to the <a href="/wiki/Bargello_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Bargello Museum">Bargello Museum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Florence" title="Florence">Florence</a>, where it was identified as part of the casket in 1890. The British Museum display includes a cast of it.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Description_and_interpretations">Description and interpretations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Franks_Casket&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Description and interpretations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lipsanoteca_di_Brescia.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Lipsanoteca_di_Brescia.jpg/270px-Lipsanoteca_di_Brescia.jpg" decoding="async" width="270" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Lipsanoteca_di_Brescia.jpg/405px-Lipsanoteca_di_Brescia.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Lipsanoteca_di_Brescia.jpg/540px-Lipsanoteca_di_Brescia.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1692" data-file-height="1374" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Brescia_Casket" title="Brescia Casket">Brescia Casket</a>, one of the best survivals of the sort of <a href="/wiki/Late_Antique" class="mw-redirect" title="Late Antique">Late Antique</a> models the Franks Casket emulates. Late 4th century</figcaption></figure> <p>The casket is 22.9 cm long, 19 cm wide and 10.9 cm high – 9 × <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style><span class="frac">7<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span> by <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027"><span class="frac">5<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">8</span></span> inches, and can be dated from the language of its inscriptions and other features to the first half of the 8th century AD.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are other inscriptions, "<a href="/wiki/Titulus_(inscription)" title="Titulus (inscription)">tituli</a>" identifying some figures that are not detailed below and appear within the image field. The mounts in precious metal that were undoubtedly originally present are missing, and it is "likely" that it was originally painted in colour.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The chest is clearly modelled on <a href="/wiki/Late_Antique" class="mw-redirect" title="Late Antique">Late Antique</a> ivory caskets such as the <a href="/wiki/Brescia_Casket" title="Brescia Casket">Brescia Casket</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Veroli_Casket" title="Veroli Casket">Veroli Casket</a> in the <a href="/wiki/V%26A_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="V&A Museum">V&A Museum</a> is a Byzantine interpretation of the style, in revived classical style, from about 1000.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Leslie_E._Webster" class="mw-redirect" title="Leslie E. Webster">Leslie Webster</a> regards the casket as probably originating in a monastic context, where the maker "clearly possessed great learning and ingenuity, to construct an object which is so visually and intellectually complex. ... it is generally accepted that the scenes, drawn from contrasting traditions, were carefully chosen to counterpoint one another in the creation of an overarching set of Christian messages. What used to be seen as an eccentric, almost random, assemblage of pagan Germanic and Christian stories is now understood as a sophisticated programme perfectly in accord with the Church's concept of universal history". It may have been intended to hold a book, perhaps a <a href="/wiki/Psalter" title="Psalter">psalter</a>, and intended to be presented to a "secular, probably royal, recipient"<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Front_panel">Front panel</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Franks_Casket&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Front panel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Franks_Casket_front.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Franks_Casket_front.jpg/340px-Franks_Casket_front.jpg" decoding="async" width="340" height="199" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Franks_Casket_front.jpg/510px-Franks_Casket_front.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Franks_Casket_front.jpg/680px-Franks_Casket_front.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1746" data-file-height="1020" /></a><figcaption>Detail of front panel, depicting the Germanic legend of <a href="/wiki/Wayland_the_Smith" title="Wayland the Smith">Wayland the Smith</a> and the Christian <a href="/wiki/Adoration_of_the_Magi" title="Adoration of the Magi">adoration of the Magi</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The front panel, which originally had a lock fitted, depicts elements from the Germanic legend of <a href="/wiki/Wayland_the_Smith" title="Wayland the Smith">Wayland the Smith</a> in the left-hand scene, and the Adoration of the Magi on the right. Wayland (also spelled Weyland, Welund or Vølund) stands at the extreme left in the forge where he is held as a slave by King <a href="/wiki/Ni%C3%B0had" title="Niðhad">Niðhad</a>, who has had his <a href="/wiki/Hamstring" title="Hamstring">hamstrings</a> cut to hobble him. Below the forge is the headless body of Niðhad's son, whom Wayland has killed, making a goblet from his skull; his head is probably the object held in the tongs in Wayland's hand. With his other hand Wayland offers the goblet, containing drugged beer, to <a href="/wiki/Beaduhild" class="mw-redirect" title="Beaduhild">Beaduhild</a>, Niðhad's daughter, whom he then rapes when she is unconscious. Another female figure is shown in the centre; perhaps Wayland's helper, or Beaduhild again. To the right of the scene Wayland (or his brother) catches birds; he then makes wings from their feathers, with which he is able to escape.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a sharp contrast, the right-hand scene shows one of the most common Christian subjects depicted in the art of the period; however here "the birth of a hero also makes good sin and suffering".<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Three_Magi" class="mw-redirect" title="Three Magi">Three Magi</a>, identified by an inscription (ᛗᚫᚷᛁ, "magi"), led by the large star, approach the enthroned <a href="/wiki/Madonna_and_Child" class="mw-redirect" title="Madonna and Child">Madonna and Child</a> bearing the traditional gifts. A goose-like bird by the feet of the leading magus may represent the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Spirit" title="Holy Spirit">Holy Spirit</a>, usually shown as a dove, or an angel. The human figures, at least, form a composition very comparable to those in other depictions of the period. <a href="/wiki/Richard_A._Fletcher" title="Richard A. Fletcher">Richard Fletcher</a> considered this contrast of scenes, from left to right, as intended to indicate the positive and benign effects of conversion to Christianity.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Around the panel runs the following alliterating inscription, which does not relate to the scenes but is a riddle on the material of the casket itself as whale bone, and specifically from a <a href="/wiki/Stranded_whale" class="mw-redirect" title="Stranded whale">stranded whale</a>: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1209690778">.mw-parser-output .interlinear .bold{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .interlinear .smallcaps{text-transform:uppercase;font-size:smaller}</style><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:2em"><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;">ᚠᛁᛋᚳ</p><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">fisc</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;">᛫</p><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">·</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;">ᚠᛚᚩᛞᚢ</p><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">flodu</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;">᛫</p><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">·</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;">ᚪᚻᚩᚠᚩᚾᚠᛖᚱᚷ</p><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">ahofonferg</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;">¶</p><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">¶</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;">ᛖᚾᛒᛖᚱᛁᚷ</p><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">enberig</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;">¶</p><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">¶</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;">ᚹᚪᚱᚦᚷᚪ</p><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">warþga</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;">᛬</p><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">:</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;">ᛋᚱᛁᚳᚷᚱᚩᚱᚾᚦᚫᚱᚻᛖᚩᚾᚷᚱᛖᚢᛏᚷᛁᛋᚹᚩᛗ</p><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">sricgrornþærheongreutgiswom</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;">¶</p><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">¶</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;">ᚻᚱᚩᚾᚫᛋᛒᚪᚾ</p><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">hronæsban</p></div><p style="display: none;">ᚠᛁᛋᚳ ᛫ ᚠᛚᚩᛞᚢ ᛫ ᚪᚻᚩᚠᚩᚾᚠᛖᚱᚷ ¶ ᛖᚾᛒᛖᚱᛁᚷ ¶ ᚹᚪᚱᚦᚷᚪ ᛬ ᛋᚱᛁᚳᚷᚱᚩᚱᚾᚦᚫᚱᚻᛖᚩᚾᚷᚱᛖᚢᛏᚷᛁᛋᚹᚩᛗ ¶ ᚻᚱᚩᚾᚫᛋᛒᚪᚾ</p><p style="display: none;">fisc · flodu · ahofonferg ¶ enberig ¶ warþga : sricgrornþærheongreutgiswom ¶ hronæsban</p><p style="clear: left;">The flood cast up the fish on the mountain-cliff. The terror-king became sad where he swam on the shingle. Whale's bone.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Left_panel">Left panel</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Franks_Casket&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Left panel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Franks_Casket_the_left_panel.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Franks_Casket_the_left_panel.jpg/320px-Franks_Casket_the_left_panel.jpg" decoding="async" width="320" height="222" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Franks_Casket_the_left_panel.jpg/480px-Franks_Casket_the_left_panel.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Franks_Casket_the_left_panel.jpg/640px-Franks_Casket_the_left_panel.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1506" data-file-height="1047" /></a><figcaption>The left panel, depicting <a href="/wiki/Romulus_and_Remus" title="Romulus and Remus">Romulus and Remus</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The left panel depicts the mythological twin founders of Rome, <a href="/wiki/Romulus_and_Remus" title="Romulus and Remus">Romulus and Remus</a>, being suckled by a <a href="/wiki/She-wolf_(Roman_mythology)" title="She-wolf (Roman mythology)">she-wolf</a> lying on her back at the bottom of the scene. The same wolf, or another, stands above, and there are two men with spears approaching from each side. The inscription reads: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>transcription of runes </th> <th>transliteration of runes </th> <th>standardised to Late West Saxon </th> <th>possible translation </th></tr> <tr> <td>ᚱᚩᛗᚹᚪᛚᚢᛋᚪᚾᛞᚱᛖᚢᛗᚹᚪᛚᚢᛋᛏᚹᛟᚷᛖᚾ ¶ ᚷᛁᛒᚱᚩᚦᚫᚱ ¶ ᚪᚠᛟᛞᛞᚫᚻᛁᚫᚹᚣᛚᛁᚠᛁᚾᚱᚩᛗᚫᚳᚫᛋᛏᚱᛁ ᛬ ¶ ᚩᚦᛚᚫᚢᚾᚾᛖᚷ </td> <td><b>romwalusandreumwalus twœgen ¶ gibroðær ¶ afœddæhiæ wylifinromæcæstri : ¶ oþlæunneg</b> </td> <td>Rōmwalus and Rēomwalus, twēgen gebrōðera: fēdde hīe wylf in Rōmeceastre, ēðle unnēah. </td> <td>Romulus and Remus, two brothers, a she-wolf nourished them in Rome, far from their native land.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/Carol_Neuman_de_Vegvar" title="Carol Neuman de Vegvar">Carol Neuman de Vegvar</a> (1999) observes that other depictions of Romulus and Remus are found in <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_East_Anglia" title="Kingdom of East Anglia">East Anglian</a> art and coinage (for example the very early <a href="/wiki/Undley_bracteate" title="Undley bracteate">Undley bracteate</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She suggests that because of the similarity of the story of Romulus and Remus to that of <a href="/wiki/Hengist_and_Horsa" title="Hengist and Horsa">Hengist and Horsa</a>, the brothers who were said to have founded England, "the legend of a pair of outcast or traveller brothers who led a people and contributed to the formation of a kingdom was probably not unfamiliar in the 8th-century Anglo-Saxon milieu of the Franks Casket and could stand as a reference to destined rulership."<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rear_panel">Rear panel</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Franks_Casket&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Rear panel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Franks_casket_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Franks_casket_01.jpg/320px-Franks_casket_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="320" height="213" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Franks_casket_01.jpg/480px-Franks_casket_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Franks_casket_01.jpg/640px-Franks_casket_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3888" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>The rear panel, depicting a scene from the <a href="/wiki/First_Jewish-Roman_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First Jewish-Roman War">First Jewish-Roman War</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The rear panel depicts the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(70)" class="mw-redirect" title="Siege of Jerusalem (70)">Taking of Jerusalem</a> by <a href="/wiki/Titus" title="Titus">Titus</a> in the <a href="/wiki/First_Jewish-Roman_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First Jewish-Roman War">First Jewish-Roman War</a>. The inscription is partly in Old English and partly in Latin, and part of the Latin portion is written in Latin letters (indicated below in upper case letters), with the remainder transcribed phonetically into runic letters. Two isolated words stand in the lower corners.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the centre of the panel is a depiction of a building, probably representing the <a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Jerusalem" class="mw-redirect" title="Temple of Jerusalem">Temple of Jerusalem</a>. </p><p>In the upper left quadrant, the Romans, led by Titus in a helm with a sword, attack the central building. The associated text reads 'ᚻᛖᚱᚠᛖᚷᛏᚪᚦ | ᛭ᛏᛁᛏᚢᛋᛖᚾᛞᚷᛁᚢᚦᛖᚪᛋᚢ' (in Latin transliteration <b>herfegtaþ | +titusendgiuþeasu</b>, and if normalised to Late West Saxon 'Hēr feohtaþ Tītus and Iūdēas'): 'Here Titus and the Jews fight'. </p><p>In the upper right quadrant, the Jewish population flee, casting glances backwards. The associated text, which is in Latin and partly uses Latin letters and partly runes, reads 'HICFUGIANTHIERUSALIM | ᚪᚠᛁᛏᚪᛏᚩᚱᛖᛋ' (in normalised Classical Latin: 'hic fugiant Hierusalim habitatores'): 'Here the inhabitants flee from Jerusalem'. </p><p>In the lower left quadrant, a seated judge announces the judgement of the defeated Jews, which as recounted in <a href="/wiki/Josephus" title="Josephus">Josephus</a> was to be sold into <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">slavery</a>. The associated text, in the bottom left corner of the panel, reads 'ᛞᚩᛗ' (if normalised to Late West Saxon: 'dōm'): 'judgement'. </p><p>In the lower right quadrant, the slaves/hostages are led away, with the text, in the bottom right corner of the panel, reading 'ᚷᛁᛋᛚ' (if normalised to Late West Saxon: 'gīsl'): 'hostages'. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lid">Lid</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Franks_Casket&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Lid"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Franks_Casket_Lid_Detail.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Franks_Casket_Lid_Detail.jpg/330px-Franks_Casket_Lid_Detail.jpg" decoding="async" width="330" height="116" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Franks_Casket_Lid_Detail.jpg/495px-Franks_Casket_Lid_Detail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Franks_Casket_Lid_Detail.jpg/660px-Franks_Casket_Lid_Detail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="854" data-file-height="300" /></a><figcaption>The lid of the casket is said by some to depict an otherwise lost legend of Egil; Egil fends off an army with bow and arrow while the female behind him may be his wife Olrun. Others interpret it as a scene from the Trojan War involving Achilles</figcaption></figure> <p>The lid as it now survives is incomplete. Leslie Webster has suggested that there may have been <a href="/wiki/Relief" title="Relief">relief</a> panels in silver making up the missing areas. The empty round area in the centre probably housed the metal boss for a handle.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The lid shows a scene of an archer, labelled ᚫᚷᛁᛚᛁ or <i>Ægili</i>, single-handedly defending a fortress against a troop of attackers, who from their larger size may be giants. </p><p>In 1866, <a href="/wiki/Sophus_Bugge" title="Sophus Bugge">Sophus Bugge</a> "followed up his explanation of the Weland picture on the front of the casket with the suggestion that the bowman on the top piece is <a href="/wiki/Agilaz" class="mw-redirect" title="Agilaz">Egil</a>, Weland's brother, and thinks that the 'carving tells a story about him of which we know nothing. We see that he defends himself with arrows. Behind him appears to sit a woman in a house; possibly this may be Egil's spouse <a href="/wiki/Olrun" class="mw-redirect" title="Olrun">Ölrún</a>.'"<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Norse_mythology" title="Norse mythology">Norse mythology</a>, Egil is named as a brother of Weyland (Weland), who is shown on the front panel of the casket. The <i><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Ei%C3%B0rekssaga" class="mw-redirect" title="Þiðrekssaga">Þiðrekssaga</a></i> depicts Egil as a master archer and the <i><a href="/wiki/V%C3%B6lundarkvi%C3%B0a" title="Völundarkviða">Völundarkviða</a></i> tells that he was the husband of the swan maiden <a href="/wiki/Olrun" class="mw-redirect" title="Olrun">Olrun</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Pforzen_buckle" title="Pforzen buckle">Pforzen buckle</a> inscription, dating to about the same period as the casket, also makes reference to the couple Egil and Olrun (<i>Áigil andi Áilrun</i>). The British Museum webpage and Leslie Webster concur, the former stating that "The lid appears to depict an episode relating to the Germanic hero Egil and has the single label <b>ægili</b> = 'Egil'."<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Josef_Strzygowski" title="Josef Strzygowski">Josef Strzygowski</a> (quoted by Viëtor 1904) proposed instead that the lid represents a scene pertaining to the fall of <a href="/wiki/Trojan_War" title="Trojan War">Troy</a>, but did not elaborate. Karl Schneider (1959) identifies the word <i>Ægili</i> on the lid as an Anglo-Saxon form of the name of the Greek hero <a href="/wiki/Achilles" title="Achilles">Achilles</a>. As nominative singular, it would indicate that the archer is Achilles, while as dative singular it could mean either that the citadel belongs to Achilles, or that the arrow that is about to be shot is meant for Achilles. Schneider himself interprets the scene on the lid as representing the massacre of <a href="/wiki/Andromache" title="Andromache">Andromache</a>'s brothers by Achilles at Thebes in a story from the <a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a>, with Achilles as the archer and Andromache's mother held captive in the room behind him. Amy Vandersall (1975) confirms Schneider's reading of <i>Ægili</i> as relating to Achilles, but would instead have the lid depict the Trojan attack on the Greek camp, with the Greek bowman <a href="/wiki/Teucer" title="Teucer">Teucer</a> as the archer and the person behind the archer (interpreted as a woman by most other authors) as Achilles in his tent. </p><p>Other authors see a Biblical or Christian message in the lid: Marijane Osborn finds that several details in <a href="/wiki/Psalms" title="Psalms">Psalm</a> 90, "especially as it appears in its Old English translation, ... may be aligned with details in the picture on the lid of the casket: the soul shielded in verse 5 and safely sheltered in the ... sanctuary in verse 9, the spiritual battle for the soul throughout, the flying missiles in verse 6 and an angelic defender in verse 11."<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Leopold Peeters (1996:44) proposes that the lid depicts the defeat of <a href="/wiki/Agila_I" title="Agila I">Agila</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Arianism" title="Arianism">Arian</a> <a href="/wiki/Visigoths" title="Visigoths">Visigothic</a> ruler of <a href="/wiki/Hispania" title="Hispania">Hispania</a> and <a href="/wiki/Septimania" title="Septimania">Septimania</a>, by Roman Catholic forces in 554 A.D. According to Gabriele Cocco (2009), the lid most likely portrays the story of <a href="/wiki/Elisha" title="Elisha">Elisha</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jehoash_of_Israel" title="Jehoash of Israel">Joas</a> from <i>2 Kings</i> 13:17, in which the prophet Elisha directs King Joas to shoot an arrow out an open window to symbolise his struggle against the Syrians: "Hence, the <i>Ægili</i>-bowman is King Joas and the figure under the arch is Elisha. The prophet would then be wearing a hood, typical of Semitic populations, and holding a staff."<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Webster (2012b:46-8) notes that the two-headed beast both above and below the figure in the room behind the archer also appears beneath the feet of Christ as King David in an illustration from an 8th-century Northumbrian manuscript of <a href="/wiki/Cassiodorus" title="Cassiodorus">Cassiodorus</a>, <i>Commentary on the Psalms.</i> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Right_panel">Right panel</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Franks_Casket&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Right panel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Franks_Casket_right_panel.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Franks_Casket_right_panel.jpg/320px-Franks_Casket_right_panel.jpg" decoding="async" width="320" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Franks_Casket_right_panel.jpg/480px-Franks_Casket_right_panel.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Franks_Casket_right_panel.jpg/640px-Franks_Casket_right_panel.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>The replica right panel in London</figcaption></figure> <p>This, the Bargello panel, has produced the most divergent readings of both text and images, and no reading of either has achieved general acceptance. At left an animal figure sits on a small rounded mound, confronted by an armed and helmeted warrior. In the centre a standing animal, usually seen as a horse, faces a figure, holding a stick or sword, who stands over something defined by a curved line. On the right are three figures. </p><p><a href="/wiki/R.I._Page" class="mw-redirect" title="R.I. Page">Raymond Page</a> reads the inscription as </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>transliteration of runes </th> <th>standardised to Late West Saxon </th> <th>possible translation </th></tr> <tr> <td><b>herhos(?) sitæþ on hærmberge ¶ agl? drigiþ ¶ swa hiri ertae gisgraf særden sorgæ ¶ and sefa tornæ</b> <p><b>risci ¶ wudu ¶ bita</b> </p> </td> <td>Hēr Hōs siteþ on hearmbeorge: <p>agl[?] drīgeþ swā hire Erta gescræf sār-denn sorge and sefan torne. </p><p>rixe / wudu / bita </p> </td> <td>Here Hos sits on the sorrow-mound; <p>She suffers distress as Ertae had imposed it upon her, a wretched den (?wood) of sorrows and of torments of mind. </p><p>rushes / wood / biter<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>However, a definitive translation of the lines has met with difficulty, partly because the runes are run together without separators between words, and partly because two letters are broken or missing. As an extra challenge for the reader, on the right panel only, the vowels are encrypted with a simple substitution cipher. Three of the vowels are represented consistently by three invented symbols. However, two additional symbols represent both <i>a</i> and <i>æ</i>, and according to Page, "it is not clear which is which or even if the carver distinguished competently between the two."<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reading one rune, transcribed by Page and others as <i>r</i> but which is different from the usual <i>r</i>-rune, as a rune for <i>u</i>, Thomas A. Bredehoft has suggested the alternative reading </p> <dl><dd><i>Her Hos sitæþ   on hæum bergæ</i></dd> <dd><i>agl[.] drigiþ,   swæ hiri Eutae gisgraf</i></dd> <dd><i>sæuden sorgæ   and sefa tornæ.</i><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>Here sits Hos on [or in] the high hill [or barrow];</dd> <dd>she endures agl[.] as the Jute appointed to her,</dd> <dd>a <i>sæuden</i> of sorrow and troubles of mind.</dd></dl> <p>Page writes, "What the scenes represent I do not know. Excited and imaginative scholars have put forward numbers of suggestions but none convinces."<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several of these theories are outlined below. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Sigurd_and_Grani?"><span id="Sigurd_and_Grani.3F"></span>Sigurd and Grani?</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Franks_Casket&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Sigurd and Grani?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:S%C3%B6_327,_G%C3%B6k.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/S%C3%B6_327%2C_G%C3%B6k.JPG/220px-S%C3%B6_327%2C_G%C3%B6k.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/S%C3%B6_327%2C_G%C3%B6k.JPG/330px-S%C3%B6_327%2C_G%C3%B6k.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/S%C3%B6_327%2C_G%C3%B6k.JPG/440px-S%C3%B6_327%2C_G%C3%B6k.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption>A "<a href="/wiki/Sigurd_stones" title="Sigurd stones">Sigurd stone</a>" from eastern Sweden depicts Sigurd's horse Grani.</figcaption></figure> <p>Elis Wadstein (1900) proposed that the right panel depicts the Germanic legend of <a href="/wiki/Sigurd" title="Sigurd">Sigurd</a>, known also as <a href="/wiki/Siegfried_(opera)" title="Siegfried (opera)">Siegfried</a>, being mourned by his horse Grani and wife Guthrun. Eleanor Clark (1930) added, "Indeed, no one seeing the figure of the horse bending over the tomb of a man could fail to recall the words of the <i>Guthrunarkvitha</i> (II,5): </p> <dl><dd>The head of Grani was bowed to the grass,</dd> <dd>The steed knew well his master was slain."<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p>While Clark admits that this is an "extremely obscure legend,"<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> she assumes that the scene must be based on a Germanic legend, and can find no other instance in the entire Norse mythology of a horse weeping over a dead body.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She concludes that the small, legless person inside the central mound must be Sigurd himself, with his legs gnawed off by the wolves mentioned in Guthrun's story. She interprets the three figures to the right as Guthrun being led away from his tomb by his slayers Gunnar and Hogne, and the female figure before Grani as the Norn-goddess <a href="/wiki/Ur%C3%B0r" title="Urðr">Urd</a>, who passes judgement on the dead. The warrior to the left would then be Sigurd again, now restored to his former prime for the afterlife, and "sent rejoicing on his way to <a href="/wiki/Gl%C3%A6sisvellir" title="Glæsisvellir">Odainsaker</a>, the realms of bliss for deserving mortals. The gateway to these glittering fields is guarded by a winged dragon who feeds on the imperishable flora that characterised the place, and the bodyless cock crows lustily as a kind of eerie <i>genius loci</i> identifying the spot as Hel's wall."<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although the Sigurd-Grani thesis remains the most widely accepted interpretation of the right panel, Arthur Napier remarked already in 1901, "I remain entirely unconvinced by the reasons [Wadstein] puts forward, and believe that the true explanation of the picture has still to be found."<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Hengist_and_Horsa?"><span id="Hengist_and_Horsa.3F"></span>Hengist and Horsa?</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Franks_Casket&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Hengist and Horsa?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:FlagOfKent.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/FlagOfKent.svg/160px-FlagOfKent.svg.png" decoding="async" width="160" height="96" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/FlagOfKent.svg/240px-FlagOfKent.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/FlagOfKent.svg/320px-FlagOfKent.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="320" data-file-height="192" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/White_horse_of_Kent" class="mw-redirect" title="White horse of Kent">White horse of Kent</a> is said to be based on the banner of Horsa</figcaption></figure> <p>A.C. Bouman (1965) and Simonne d'Ardenne (1966)<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> instead interpret the mournful stallion (Old English <i>hengist</i>) at the centre of the right panel as representing Hengist, who, with his brother Horsa, first led the Old Saxons, Angles, and Jutes into Britain, and eventually became the first Anglo-Saxon king in England, according to both <a href="/wiki/Bede" title="Bede">Bede</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Historia_ecclesiastica_gentis_Anglorum" class="mw-redirect" title="Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum"><i>Ecclesiastical History of the English People</i></a> and the <i><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle" title="Anglo-Saxon Chronicle">Anglo-Saxon Chronicle</a></i>. The miniature person inside the burial mound he grieves over would then be Horsa, who died at the battle of <i>Ægelesthrep</i> in 455 A.D. and was buried in a flint tumulus at <a href="/wiki/Fort_Horsted" title="Fort Horsted">Horsted</a> near <a href="/wiki/Aylesford" title="Aylesford">Aylesford</a>. Bouman suggests that the female mourner could then be Hengist's famous daughter <a href="/wiki/Rowena" title="Rowena">Renwein</a>. </p><p>Bouman and d'Ardenne identify the strange creature on the left with the head of a horse, the clothing and posture of a man, and the wings of a spirit, as Horsa again, this time as a spirit seated on his own burial mound. Horsa (whose name means <i>horse</i> in Old English) would then be the "Hos" referred to in the panel's inscription as sitting on a "sorrow-mound." They note that there is a miniature horse in each corner of the panel, in keeping with its theme of two famous "horses." </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Deity_of_the_Grove?"><span id="The_Deity_of_the_Grove.3F"></span>The Deity of the Grove?</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Franks_Casket&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: The Deity of the Grove?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tangelgarda_Odin.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Tangelgarda_Odin.jpg/220px-Tangelgarda_Odin.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Tangelgarda_Odin.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="268" data-file-height="212" /></a><figcaption> The <a href="/wiki/T%C3%A4ngelg%C3%A5rda_stone" class="mw-redirect" title="Tängelgårda stone">Tängelgårda stone</a> from <a href="/wiki/Gotland" title="Gotland">Gotland</a>, Sweden depicts two <a href="/wiki/Valknut" title="Valknut">valknuts</a> between the horse's legs, as on the right panel of the Franks Casket</figcaption></figure> <p>Usually <b>herhos sitæþ</b> is read, "here sits the horse". However, Wilhelm Krause (1959) instead separates <b>herh</b> (temple) and <b>os</b> (divinity). Alfred Becker (1973, 2002), following Krause, interprets <b>herh</b> as a sacred grove, the site where in pagan days the <a href="/wiki/%C3%86sir" title="Æsir">Æsir</a> were worshipped, and <b>os</b> as a goddess or valkyrie. On the left, a warrior "has met his fate in guise of a frightening monster... As the outcome, the warrior rests in his grave shown in the middle section. There (left of the mound) we have a horse marked with two trefoils, the divine symbols.... Above the mound we see a chalice and right of the mound a woman with a staff in hand. It is his Valkyrie, who has left her seat and come to him in the shape of a bird. Now she is his beautiful <b>sigwif</b>, the hero's benevolent, even loving companion, who revives him with a draught from that chalice and takes him to Valhalla. The horse may be <i><a href="/wiki/Sleipnir" title="Sleipnir">Sleipnir</a></i>, Woden's famous stallion."<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Krause and Becker call attention to the significance of the two trefoil marks or <a href="/wiki/Valknutr" class="mw-redirect" title="Valknutr">valknutr</a> between the stallion's legs, which denote the realm of death and can be found in similar position on picture stones from Gotland, Sweden like the <a href="/wiki/T%C3%A4ngelg%C3%A5rda_stone" class="mw-redirect" title="Tängelgårda stone">Tängelgårda stone</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Stora_Hammars_stones" title="Stora Hammars stones">Stora Hammars stones</a>. Two other pictures of the Franks Casket show this symbol. On the front it marks the third of the <a href="/wiki/Magi" title="Magi">Magi</a>, who brings <a href="/wiki/Myrrh" title="Myrrh">myrrh</a>. It also appears on the lid, where according to Becker, <a href="/wiki/Valhalla" title="Valhalla">Valhalla</a> is depicted. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Madness_of_Nebuchadnezzar?"><span id="The_Madness_of_Nebuchadnezzar.3F"></span>The Madness of Nebuchadnezzar?</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Franks_Casket&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: The Madness of Nebuchadnezzar?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:William_Blake_-_Nebuchadnezzar_(Tate_Britain).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/William_Blake_-_Nebuchadnezzar_%28Tate_Britain%29.jpg/220px-William_Blake_-_Nebuchadnezzar_%28Tate_Britain%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/William_Blake_-_Nebuchadnezzar_%28Tate_Britain%29.jpg/330px-William_Blake_-_Nebuchadnezzar_%28Tate_Britain%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/William_Blake_-_Nebuchadnezzar_%28Tate_Britain%29.jpg/440px-William_Blake_-_Nebuchadnezzar_%28Tate_Britain%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="1099" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Nebuchadnezzar_(Blake)" title="Nebuchadnezzar (Blake)">“Nebuchadnezzar” by William Blake</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tate_Gallery" class="mw-redirect" title="Tate Gallery">Tate</a>) </figcaption></figure> <p>Leopold Peeters (1996) proposes that the right panel provides a pictorial illustration of the biblical <i><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Daniel" title="Book of Daniel">Book of Daniel</a></i>, ch. 4 and 5: The wild creature at the left represents <a href="/wiki/Nebuchadnezzar" class="mw-redirect" title="Nebuchadnezzar">Nebuchadnezzar</a> after he “was driven away from people and given the mind of an animal; he lived with the wild asses and ate grass like cattle.”<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The figure facing him is then the “watchful one” who decreed Nebuchadnezzar's fate in a dream (4.13-31), and the quadruped in the centre represents one of the wild asses with whom he lived. Some of the details Peeters cites are specific to the <a href="/wiki/Daniel_(Old_English_poem)" title="Daniel (Old English poem)">Old English poem based on <i>Daniel</i></a>. </p><p>According to Peeters, the three figures at the right may then represent <a href="/wiki/Belshazzar" title="Belshazzar">Belshazzar</a>’s wife and concubines, "conducting blasphemous rites of irreverence (<i>Dan.</i> 5:1-4, 22)."<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The corpse in the central burial mound would represent Belshazzar himself, who was murdered that night, and the woman mourning him may be the queen mother. The cryptic runes on this panel may be intended to invoke the mysterious writing that appeared on the palace wall during these events. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Death_of_Balder?"><span id="The_Death_of_Balder.3F"></span>The Death of Balder?</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Franks_Casket&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: The Death of Balder?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hotherus_and_wood_maidens_by_Froelich.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Hotherus_and_wood_maidens_by_Froelich.jpg/220px-Hotherus_and_wood_maidens_by_Froelich.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Hotherus_and_wood_maidens_by_Froelich.jpg/330px-Hotherus_and_wood_maidens_by_Froelich.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Hotherus_and_wood_maidens_by_Froelich.jpg/440px-Hotherus_and_wood_maidens_by_Froelich.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1470" data-file-height="946" /></a><figcaption>Hother and the wood maidens by <a href="/wiki/Lorenz_Fr%C3%B8lich" title="Lorenz Frølich">Lorenz Frølich</a></figcaption></figure> <p>David Howlett (1997) identifies the illustrations on the right panel with the story of the death of <a href="/wiki/Baldr" title="Baldr">Balder</a>, as told by the late 12th-century Danish historian <a href="/wiki/Saxo_Grammaticus" title="Saxo Grammaticus">Saxo Grammaticus</a> in his <i><a href="/wiki/Gesta_Danorum" title="Gesta Danorum">Gesta Danorum</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Saxo, Balder's rival <a href="/wiki/H%C3%B6%C3%B0r" title="Höðr">Hother</a> meets three women in a dank wood late at night, who provide him with a belt and girdle that will enable him to defeat Balder. Hother wounds Balder, who dies three days later and is buried in a mound. </p><p>Howlett identifies the three figures at the right with the three wood maidens (who may be the three <a href="/wiki/Norns" title="Norns">Norns</a>), and the shrouded man within the central mound with Balder. “The woman to the right of the mound is <a href="/wiki/Hel_(being)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hel (being)">Hel</a>, Saxo’s <a href="/wiki/Proserpina" title="Proserpina">Proserpina</a>, prophesying Balder’s death and condemning <a href="/wiki/Woden" class="mw-redirect" title="Woden">Woden</a> to sorrow and humiliation. The stallion to the left of the mound is Balder’s father Woden.”<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Saxo's story, Woden then begets a second son, Boe (<a href="/wiki/V%C3%A1li" title="Váli">Bous or Váli</a>), to avenge Balder's death. Howlett interprets the warrior at left as Boe, and “one infers that the mound is depicted twice and that the stallion mourning in the centre of the panel is identical with the figure seated at the left end, where he retains his horse’s head and hooves.”<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Penance_of_Rhiannon?"><span id="The_Penance_of_Rhiannon.3F"></span>The Penance of Rhiannon?</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Franks_Casket&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: The Penance of Rhiannon?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Charlotte_Guest_Rhiannon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Charlotte_Guest_Rhiannon.jpg/220px-Charlotte_Guest_Rhiannon.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Charlotte_Guest_Rhiannon.jpg/330px-Charlotte_Guest_Rhiannon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Charlotte_Guest_Rhiannon.jpg/440px-Charlotte_Guest_Rhiannon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="656" data-file-height="574" /></a><figcaption>Rhiannon riding in Arbeth, from <i>The Mabinogion</i>, translated by Charlotte Guest, 1877</figcaption></figure> <p>Ute Schwab (2008), following Heiner Eichner (1991), interprets the left and central scenes on the right panel as relating to the Welsh legend of <a href="/wiki/Rhiannon" title="Rhiannon">Rhiannon</a>. According to the <i><a href="/wiki/Mabinogion" title="Mabinogion">Mabinogion</a></i>, a medieval collection of ancient Welsh stories, Rhiannon was falsely accused of murdering and eating her infant son <a href="/wiki/Pryderi" title="Pryderi">Pryderi</a>, who, according to Schwab, is represented by the swaddled infant in the central scene. As a penance, she was required, as depicted in the scene on the left, "to sit beside the <a href="/wiki/Mounting_block" title="Mounting block">horse-block</a> outside the gates of the court for seven years, offering to carry visitors up to the palace on her back, like a beast of burden.... Rhiannon's horse-imagery and her bounty have led scholars to equate her with the Celtic horse-goddess <a href="/wiki/Epona" title="Epona">Epona</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Satan_and_the_Nativity?"><span id="Satan_and_the_Nativity.3F"></span>Satan and the Nativity?</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Franks_Casket&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Satan and the Nativity?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:9821_-_Milano_-_Sant%27Ambrogio_-_Sarcofago_di_Stilicone_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto_25-Apr-2007.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/9821_-_Milano_-_Sant%27Ambrogio_-_Sarcofago_di_Stilicone_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto_25-Apr-2007.jpg/220px-9821_-_Milano_-_Sant%27Ambrogio_-_Sarcofago_di_Stilicone_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto_25-Apr-2007.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="103" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/9821_-_Milano_-_Sant%27Ambrogio_-_Sarcofago_di_Stilicone_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto_25-Apr-2007.jpg/330px-9821_-_Milano_-_Sant%27Ambrogio_-_Sarcofago_di_Stilicone_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto_25-Apr-2007.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/9821_-_Milano_-_Sant%27Ambrogio_-_Sarcofago_di_Stilicone_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto_25-Apr-2007.jpg/440px-9821_-_Milano_-_Sant%27Ambrogio_-_Sarcofago_di_Stilicone_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto_25-Apr-2007.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1928" data-file-height="904" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Nativity_of_Jesus_in_art" title="Nativity of Jesus in art">Nativity scene</a>, 4th-century Roman Christian sarcophagus</figcaption></figure> <p>Austin Simmons (2010) parses the frame inscription into the following segments: </p> <dl><dd><i>herh os-sitæþ on hærm-bergæ</i></dd> <dd><i>agl drigiþ swæ hiri er tae-gi-sgraf</i></dd> <dd><i>sær-den sorgæ and sefa-tornæ</i></dd></dl> <p>This he translates, "The idol sits far off on the dire hill, suffers abasement in sorrow and heart-rage as the den of pain had ordained for it." Linguistically, the segment <i>os-</i> represents the verbal prefix <i>oþ-</i> assimilated to the following sibilant, while in the b-verse of the second line <i>er</i> "before" is an independent word before a three-member verbal compound, <i>tae-gi-sgraf</i>. The first member <i>tae-</i> is a rare form of the particle-prefix <i>to-</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The inscription refers specifically to the scene on the left end of the casket's right side. According to Simmons, the 'idol' (<i>herh</i>) is <a href="/wiki/Satan" title="Satan">Satan</a> in the form of an ass, being tortured by a personified Hell in helmet. The scene is a reference to the apocryphon <i><a href="/wiki/Acts_of_Pilate" class="mw-redirect" title="Acts of Pilate">Decensus ad Inferos</a></i>, a popular medieval text translated into Anglo-Saxon. In one version of the story of the <a href="/wiki/Harrowing_of_Hell" title="Harrowing of Hell">Harrowing of Hell</a>, a personified Hell blames Satan for having brought about the <a href="/wiki/Crucifixion_of_Jesus" title="Crucifixion of Jesus">Crucifixion</a>, which has allowed Christ to descend to Hell's kingdom and free the imprisoned souls. Therefore, Hell tortures Satan in retribution. Simmons separates the other scenes on the right side and interprets them as depictions of the <a href="/wiki/Nativity_of_Jesus" title="Nativity of Jesus">Nativity</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Passion_(Christianity)" class="mw-redirect" title="Passion (Christianity)">Passion</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Runological_and_numerological_considerations">Runological and numerological considerations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Franks_Casket&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Runological and numerological considerations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Franks_Casket_front,_words_Fisc_Flodu.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Franks_Casket_front%2C_words_Fisc_Flodu.jpg/220px-Franks_Casket_front%2C_words_Fisc_Flodu.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="71" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Franks_Casket_front%2C_words_Fisc_Flodu.jpg/330px-Franks_Casket_front%2C_words_Fisc_Flodu.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Franks_Casket_front%2C_words_Fisc_Flodu.jpg/440px-Franks_Casket_front%2C_words_Fisc_Flodu.jpg 2x" data-file-width="880" data-file-height="284" /></a><figcaption>The inscription ᚠᛁᛋᚳ᛫ᚠᛚᚩᛞᚢ᛫ "<i>Fisc Flodu</i> …" on the front of the Franks Casket alliterates on the F-rune ᚠ <i>feoh</i>, which connotes wealth or treasure</figcaption></figure> <p>Each Anglo-Saxon runic letter had an <a href="/wiki/Acrophony" title="Acrophony">acrophonic</a> Old English name, which gave the rune itself the connotations of the name, as described in the <a href="/wiki/Old_English_rune_poem" title="Old English rune poem">Old English rune poem</a>. The inscriptions on the Franks Casket are alliterative verse, and so give particular emphasis to one or more runes on each side. According to Becker (1973, 2002), these tell a story corresponding to the illustrations, with each of the scenes emblematic of a certain period of the life and afterlife of a warrior-king: The front inscription alliterates on both the F-rune ᚠ <i>feoh</i> (wealth) and the G-rune ᚷ <i>gyfu</i> (gift), corresponding to the jewellery produced by the goldsmith Welund and the gifts of the three Magi. “In this box our warrior hoarded his treasure, golden rings and bands and bracelets, jewellery he had received from his lord, … which he passed to his own retainers… This is <i>feohgift</i>, a gift not only for the keep of this or that follower, but also to honour him in front of his comrade-in-arms in the hall.”<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Romulus and Remus inscription alliterates on the R-rune ᚱ <i>rad</i> (journey or ride), evoking both how far from home the twins had journeyed and the owner's call to arms. The Titus side stresses the T-rune ᛏ <i><a href="/wiki/Tyr" class="mw-redirect" title="Tyr">Tiw</a></i> (the Anglo-Saxon god of victory), documenting that the peak of a warrior-king's life is glory won by victory over his enemies. The right side alliterates first on the H-rune ᚻ <i>hagal</i> (hail storm or misfortune) and then on the S-rune ᛋ <i>sigel</i> (sun, light, life), and illustrates the hero's death and ultimate salvation, according to Becker. </p><p>Becker also presents a numerological analysis of the inscriptions, finding 72 = 3 x 24 signs on the front and left panels, and a total of 288 or 12 x 24 signs on the entire casket. All these numbers are multiples of 24 = 3 x 8, the magical number of runes in the <a href="/wiki/Elder_futhark" class="mw-redirect" title="Elder futhark">elder futhark</a>, the early continental runic alphabet preserved within the extended <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_runes" title="Anglo-Saxon runes">Anglo-Saxon futhorc</a>. "In order to reach certain values the carver had to choose quite unusual word forms and ways of spelling which have kept generations of scholars busy."<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Osborn (1991a, 1991b) concurs that the rune counts of 72 are intentional. However, "whereas [Becker] sees this as indicating pagan magic, I see it as complementing such magic, as another example of the Franks Casket artist adapting his pagan materials to a Christian evangelical purpose in the mode of <i>interpretatio romana</i>. The artist manipulates his runes very carefully, on the front of the casket supplementing their number with dots and on the right side reducing their number with <a href="/wiki/Bind_rune" title="Bind rune">bindrunes</a>, so that each of the three inscriptions contains precisely seventy-two items.... The most obvious Christian association of the number seventy-two, for an Anglo-Saxon if not for us, is with the missionary disciples appointed by Christ in addition to the twelve apostles.... The number of these disciples is mentioned in scripture only in Luke 10, and there are two versions of this text; whereas the Protestant Bible says that Christ appointed a further seventy disciples, the Vulgate version known to the Anglo-Saxons specifies seventy-two. In commenting on that number, <a href="/wiki/Bede" title="Bede">Bede</a> associates it with the mission to the Gentiles (that is, "all nations"), because seventy-two is the number of nations among the Gentiles, a multiple of the twelve tribes of Israel represented by the twelve apostles."<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Glossary">Glossary</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Franks_Casket&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Glossary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This is a glossary of the Old English words on the casket, excluding personal names. Definitions are selected from those in <a href="/wiki/John_Richard_Clark_Hall" title="John Richard Clark Hall">Clark Hall</a>'s dictionary.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Transliteration of runes on casket </th> <th>Form normalised to <a href="/wiki/Late_West_Saxon" class="mw-redirect" title="Late West Saxon">Late West Saxon</a> </th> <th>Headword form (nominative singular for substantives, infinitive for verbs) </th> <th>Meaning </th></tr> <tr> <td><b>agl</b>[?] </td> <td>āglǣc? </td> <td>This word is a mystery, but often emended to <i>āglǣc</i> (neuter noun) </td> <td>trouble, distress, oppression, misery, grief </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>ahof</b> </td> <td>āhōf </td> <td>āhebban (strong verb) </td> <td>lift up, stir up, raise, exalt, erect </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>and</b>, <b>end</b> </td> <td>and </td> <td>and (conjunction) </td> <td>and </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>ban</b> </td> <td>bān </td> <td>bān (neuter noun) </td> <td>bone, tusk </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>bita</b> </td> <td>bita </td> <td>bita (masculine noun) </td> <td>biter, wild beast </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>den</b> (occurring in the string <i>særden</i>) </td> <td>denn </td> <td>denn (neuter noun) </td> <td>den, lair, cave </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>dom</b> </td> <td>dōm </td> <td>dōm (masculine noun) </td> <td>doom, judgment, ordeal, sentence; court, tribunal, assembly </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>drigiþ</b> </td> <td>drīgeþ </td> <td>drēogan (strong verb) </td> <td>experience, suffer, endure, sustain, tolerate </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>oþlæ</b> </td> <td>ēðle </td> <td>ēðel (masculine/neuter noun) </td> <td>country, native land, home </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>fœddæ</b> </td> <td>fēdde </td> <td>fēdan (weak verb) </td> <td>feed, nourish, sustain, foster, bring up </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>fegtaþ</b> </td> <td>feohtaþ </td> <td>feohtan (strong verb) </td> <td>fight, combat, strive </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>fergenberig</b> </td> <td>firgenberig </td> <td>firgenbeorg (feminine noun) </td> <td>mountain? </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>fisc</b> </td> <td>fisc </td> <td>fisc (masculine noun) </td> <td>fish </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>flodu</b> </td> <td>flōd </td> <td>flōd (masculine/neuter noun) </td> <td>mass of water, flood, wave; flow (of tide as opposed to ebb), tide, flux, current, stream </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>gasric</b> </td> <td>gāsrīc(?) </td> <td>gāsrīc? (masculine noun) </td> <td>savage person? </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>gibroðæra</b> </td> <td>gebrōðera </td> <td>brōðor (masculine noun) </td> <td>brother </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>gisgraf</b> </td> <td>gescræf </td> <td>gescræf (neuter noun) </td> <td>cave, cavern, hole, pit </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>giswom</b> </td> <td>geswam </td> <td>geswimman (strong verb) </td> <td>swim, float </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>gisl</b> </td> <td>gīsl </td> <td>gīsl (masculine noun) </td> <td>hostage </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>greut</b> </td> <td>grēot </td> <td>grēot (neuter noun) </td> <td>grit, sand, earth </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>grorn</b> </td> <td>grorn </td> <td>grorn (adjective) </td> <td>sad, agitated </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>he</b> </td> <td>hē </td> <td>hē (personal pronoun) </td> <td>he </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>hærmberge</b> </td> <td>hearmbeorge </td> <td>hearmbeorg (feminine noun) </td> <td>grave? </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>herh</b> (possibly occurring in the string <b>herhos</b>) </td> <td>hearg </td> <td>hearg (masculine noun) </td> <td>temple, altar, sanctuary, idol; grove? </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>her</b> </td> <td>hēr </td> <td>hēr (adverb) </td> <td>here </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>hiæ</b> </td> <td>hīe </td> <td>hē/hēo/þæt (personal pronoun) </td> <td>he/she/it </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>hiri</b> </td> <td>hire </td> <td>hēo (personal pronoun) </td> <td>she </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>hronæs</b> </td> <td>hranes </td> <td>hran (masculine noun) </td> <td>whale </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>in</b> </td> <td>in </td> <td>in (preposition) </td> <td>in, into, upon, on, at, to, among </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>giuþeasu</b> </td> <td>Iūdēas </td> <td>Iūdēas (masculine plural) </td> <td>the Jews </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>on</b> </td> <td>on </td> <td>on (preposition) </td> <td>on, upon, on to, up to, among; in, into, within </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>os</b> (possibly occurring in the string <b>herhos</b>) </td> <td>ōs </td> <td>ōs (masculine noun) </td> <td>a divinity, god </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>romæcæstri</b> </td> <td>Rōmeceastre </td> <td>Rōmeceaster (feminine noun) </td> <td>the city of Rome </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>risci</b> </td> <td>risce </td> <td>risc (feminine noun) </td> <td>rush </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>sær</b> (occurring in the string <b>særden</b>) </td> <td>sār </td> <td>sār (neuter noun) </td> <td>bodily pain, sickness; wound, sore, raw place; suffering, sorrow, affliction </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>sefa</b> </td> <td>sefan </td> <td>sefa (masculine noun) </td> <td>mind, spirit, understanding, heart </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>sitæþ</b> </td> <td>siteþ </td> <td>sittan (strong verb) </td> <td>sit, sit down, recline </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>sorgæ</b> </td> <td>sorge </td> <td>sorg (feminine noun) </td> <td>sorrow, pain, grief, trouble, care, distress, anxiety </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>swa</b> </td> <td>swā </td> <td>swā (adverb) </td> <td>so as, consequently, just as, so far as, in such wise, in this or that way, thus, so that, provided that </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>tornæ</b> </td> <td>torne </td> <td>torn (neuter noun) </td> <td>anger, indignation; grief, misery, suffering, pain </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>twœgen</b> </td> <td>twēgen </td> <td>twēgen (numeral) </td> <td>two </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>unneg</b> </td> <td>unnēah </td> <td>unnēah (adjective) </td> <td>not near, far, away from </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>warþ</b> </td> <td>wearþ </td> <td>weorðan (strong verb) </td> <td>become </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>wudu</b> </td> <td>wudu </td> <td>wudu (masculine noun) </td> <td>wood, forest, grove </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>wylif</b> </td> <td>wylf </td> <td>wylf (feminine noun) </td> <td>she-wolf </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>þær</b> </td> <td>þǣr </td> <td>þǣr (adverb) </td> <td>there; 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Although A. S. Napier (1901) concurs with an early 8th-century Northumbrian origin, <a href="/wiki/Mercia" title="Mercia">Mercia</a>, and a 7th-century date, have also been proposed .<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The British Museum website (see external links) says Northumbria and "first half of the 8th century AD", as does Webster (2012a:92), "early part of the eighth century".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Vandersall summarises the previous scholarship as at 1972 in setting the casket into an art-historical, rather than linguistic context. Mrs <a href="/wiki/Leslie_E._Webster" class="mw-redirect" title="Leslie E. Webster">Leslie Webster</a>, former Keeper at the British Museum and the leading expert, has published a new short book on the casket (Webster 2012b).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Webster (2000).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Parsons (1999, 98-100) has an important discussion on the runes used in the Franks Casket.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Webster (2012a:97); Ripon was suggested by Wood, who was able to connect Ripon with Brioude through the Frankish scholar Frithegod "active in both areas in the middle tenth century (Wood 1990, 4-5)" - Webster (1991) from BM collection database.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Vandersall 1972:24 note 1.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Webster (1991), from British Museum collection database</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Measurements from British Museum Collections Database webpage. For date see note to lead.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Webster (2012a:92).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Webster (1991); Webster (2012a:92); Webster (2012b:30-33).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Webster (2000).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Webster (2012a:96-97). (both quoted, in that order)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This scene was first explained by Sophus Bugge, in Stephens (1866-1901, Vol. I, p. lxix), as cited by Napier (1901, p. 368). See also Henderson (1971, p. 157).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Webster (1991)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fletcher, R. <i>The Conversion of Europe: From Paganism to Christianity 371-1386AD</i> London 1997 pp269-270 <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0002552035" title="Special:BookSources/0002552035">0002552035</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hough and Corbett (2013: 106).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Page (1999, p. 175).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Another Anglo-Saxon bone plaque, existing only in a fragment at the <a href="/wiki/Castle_Museum,_Norwich" class="mw-redirect" title="Castle Museum, Norwich">Castle Museum, Norwich</a>, which was found at <a href="/wiki/Larling" title="Larling">Larling</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norfolk" title="Norfolk">Norfolk</a>, also shows Romulus and Remus being suckled, with other animal ornament. (Wilson 1984, p. 86).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Neuman de Vegvar (1999, pp. 265–6)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Page (1999, pp. 176–7).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">MacGregor, Arthur. <i>Bone, Antler, Ivory and Horn</i>, <a href="/wiki/Ashmolean_Museum" title="Ashmolean Museum">Ashmolean Museum</a>, 1984, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7099-3507-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-7099-3507-2">0-7099-3507-2</a>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7099-3507-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7099-3507-0">978-0-7099-3507-0</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=o0MflvaPJ3MC&dq=Franks+Casket&pg=PA201">Google books</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged September 2024">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Napier (1901, p. 366), quoting Bugge in Stephens (1866-1901, vol. I, p. lxx).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">British Museum Collections Database webpage, accessed Jan. 26, 2013; Webster (2012), p. 92</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Osborn (1991b: 262-3). <a href="/wiki/Psalms" title="Psalms">Psalm</a> 90 in the Vulgate bible and Old English translation referenced by Osborn corresponds to Psalm 91 in Protestant and Hebrew bibles.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cocco (2009: 30).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Page (1999, 178-9). Page's translations are endorsed by Webster (1999). See Napier (1901), Krause (1959), d'Ardenne (1966), and Peeters (1996) for discussion of alternative readings.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Page (1999: 87)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Thomas A. Bredehoft, 'Three New Cryptic Runes on the Franks Casket', <i>Notes and Queries</i>, 58.2 (2011), 181-83, doi:10.1093/notesj/gjr037.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Page (1999: 178).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Translation of H.A. Bellows, Oxford Univ. Press, 1926, as cited by Clark (1930, p. 339).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Clark (1930, p. 340)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Clark (1930, p. 342)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Clark (1930, pp. 352–3).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Napier (1901: 379 n.2). Napier (p. 364) reports that Dr. Söderberg of Lund had anticipated Wadstein's proposal already in the <i>Academy</i>, referring to a brief mention in the Notes and News section of The Academy, A Weekly Review of Literature, Science and Art, August 2nd 1890, p.90, col.1.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">D'Ardenne independently put forward Bouman's Hengist and Horsa reading, which she only discovered as her own article was going to press.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Becker (2000, unpaginated section "H-panel (Right Side) - The Picture").</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Peeters (1996: 29), citing <i>Daniel</i> 5:21.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Peeters (1996: 31).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Schneider (1959) similarly identified the right panel with Saxo’s version of the death of Balder.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Howlett (1997: 280-1).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Howlett (1997: 281).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Green (1993, p. 30).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Simmons (2010).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Simmons (2010).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Becker (2002, unpaginated, section <i>The Casket – a Warrior’s Life</i>)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Becker (2002), unpaginated section <i>F-panel (Front) - Number and value of the runes</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Osborn (1991b: 260-1). Howlett (1997: 283) concurs with Becker and Osborn that "The carver counted his characters."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/John_Richard_Clark_Hall" title="John Richard Clark Hall">John R. Clark Hall</a>, <i>A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary</i>, 4th rev. edn by Herbet D. Meritt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960); 1916 second edn available at <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31543/31543-0.txt">http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31543/31543-0.txt</a>.</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Franks_Casket&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>d'Ardenne, Simonne R.T.O., "Does the right side of the Franks Casket represent the burial of Sigurd?" <i>Études Germaniques</i>, <b>21</b> (1966), pp. 235–242.</li> <li>Becker, Alfred, <i>Franks Casket: Zu den Bildern und Inschriften des Runenkästchens von Auzon</i>. Regensburg, 1973.</li> <li>Becker, Alfred, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.franks-casket.de/">Franks Casket</a> website dated 2002, with English and German versions.</li> <li>Becker, Alfred, <i>Franks Casket; Das Runenkästchen von Auzon. Magie in Bildern, Runen und Zahlen</i>. Berlin 2021, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-7329-0738-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-7329-0738-0">978-3-7329-0738-0</a>.</li> <li>Becker, Alfred, <i>The King's Gift Box: The Runic Casket of Auzon</i> Witan Publishing, Troy, Al. 2023 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/979-8354247431" title="Special:BookSources/979-8354247431">979-8354247431</a></li> <li>Bouman, A.C., "The Franks Casket," <i>Neophilologus</i> <b>3</b> (1965): 241–9.</li> <li>Clark, Eleanor Grace, "The Right Side of the Franks Casket," <i>Publications of the Modern Language Association</i> <b>45</b> (1930): 339–353.</li> <li>Cocco, Gabriele, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.academia.edu/1464493/The_Bowman_who_takes_off_the_Lid_of_the_Franks_Casket">"The Bowman Who Takes the Lid off the Franks Casket."</a>, <i>Studi anglo-norreni in onore di John S. McKinnell</i>, ed. M. E. Ruggerini. CUED Editrice, 2009.</li> <li>Eichner, Heiner, <i>Zu Franks Casket/Rune Auzon</i>, in Alfred Bammesberger, ed., <i>Old English Runes and their Continental Background</i> (= <i>Altenglische Forschngen</i> <b>217</b>). Heidelberg, 1991, pp. 603–628.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Elliott" title="Ralph Elliott">Elliott, Ralph W.V.</a>, <i>Runes: An Introduction</i>. Manchester University Press, 1959.</li> <li>Green, Miranda Jane, <i>Celtic Myths</i>. British Museum Press, 1993.</li> <li>Henderson, George, <i>Early Medieval Art</i>, 1972, rev. 1977, Penguin, pp. 156–158.</li> <li>Hough, Carole and John Corbett, <i>Beginning Old English</i>. Palgrave, 2013.</li> <li>Howlett, David R., <i>British Books in Biblical Style</i>. Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1997.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Krause" title="Wolfgang Krause">Krause, Wolfgang</a>, "Erta, ein anglischer Gott", <i>Die Sprache</i> 5; Festschrift Havers (1959), 46–54.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Napier" title="Arthur Napier">Napier, Arthur S.</a>, in <i>An English Miscellany,</i> in honor of Dr. F.J. Furnivall, Oxford, 1901.</li> <li>Neuman de Vegvar, Carol L. "The Travelling Twins: Romulus and Remus in Anglo-Saxon England." Ch. 21 in Jane Hawkes and Susan Mills, eds., <i>Northumbria's Golden Age</i>, Sutton Publishing, Phoenix Mill Thrupp, Strand, Gloucestershire, 1999, pp. 256–267.</li> <li>Osborn, Marijane. "The Seventy-Two Gentiles and the Theme of the Franks Casket." <i>Neuphilologische Mitteilungen: Bulletin de la Société Néophilologique/ Bulletin of the Modern Language Society</i> <b>92</b> (1991a): 281–288.</li> <li>Osborn, Marijane. "The Lid as Conclusion of the Syncretic Theme of the Franks Casket," in A. Bammesberger (ed.), <i>Old English Runes and their Continental Background</i>, Heidelberg 1991b, pp. 249–268.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._I._Page" title="R. I. Page">Page, R.I.</a> <i>An Introduction to English Runes</i>, Woodbridge, 1999.</li> <li>Parsons, D. <i>Recasting the Runes: the Reform of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc</i> (<i>Runron</i> <b>14</b>), Uppsala 1999.</li> <li>Peeters, Leopold, "The Franks Casket: A Judeo-Christian Interpretation.", 1996, <i>Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik</i> <b>46</b>: 17–52.</li> <li>Schneider, Karl, "Zu den Inschriften und Bildern des Franks Casket und einer ae. Version des Mythos von Balders Tod." In <i>Festschrift für Walther Fischer</i> Heidelberg, Universitätsverlag, 1959.</li> <li>Schwab, Ute, <i>Franks Casket: fünf Studien zum Runenkästchen von Auzon</i>, ed. by Hasso C. Heiland. Vol. 15 of <i>Studia medievalia septentrionalia</i>, Vienna: Fassbaender, 2008.</li> <li>Simmons, Austin <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/contributions/144"><i>The Cipherment of the Franks Casket</i></a> on <a href="/w/index.php?title=Project_Woruldhord&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Project Woruldhord (page does not exist)">Project Woruldhord</a>, dated Jan. 2010.</li> <li>Söderberg, Sigurd, in <i>London Academy</i>, Aug. 2, 1899, p. 90. (As cited by Clark 1930)</li> <li>Stephens, George, <i>The Old-Norse Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England</i> (4 volumes), London: J.R. Smith, 1866–1901.</li> <li>Vandersall, Amy L., "The Date and Provenance of the Franks Casket," <i>Gesta</i> 11, 2 (1972), pp. 9–26.</li> <li>Vandersall, Amy L., "Homeric Myth in Early Medieval England: The Lid of the Franks Casket". <i>Studies in Iconography</i> <b>1</b> (1975): 2-37.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Vi%C3%ABtor" title="Wilhelm Viëtor">Viëtor, W.</a>, "Allgemeinwissenschaftliches; Gelehrten-, Schrift-, Buch- und Bibliothekswesen." <i>Deutsche Literaturzeitung</i>. Vol. <b>25</b>, 13 Feb. 1904.</li> <li>Wadstein, Elis (1900), "The Clermont Runic Casket," <i>Skrifter utgifna af K. Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Upsala</i> <b>6</b> (7). Uppsala, Almqvist & Wicksells Boktryckeri A. B. Available as undated <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a> Libraries reprint.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leslie_E._Webster" class="mw-redirect" title="Leslie E. Webster">Webster, Leslie</a> (1991), "The Franks Casket," in <a href="/wiki/Leslie_E._Webster" class="mw-redirect" title="Leslie E. Webster">L. Webster</a> - <a href="/wiki/Janet_Backhouse" title="Janet Backhouse">J. Backhouse</a> (eds), <i>The Making of England: Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture, AD 600-900</i>, London 1991, pp. 101–103 (text on <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=92560&partid=1">British Museum collection database</a>).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leslie_E._Webster" class="mw-redirect" title="Leslie E. Webster">Webster, Leslie</a> (2000), <i>The Franks Casket</i>, pp. 194–195, <i>The Blackwell encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England</i> (Editors: Michael Lapidge, John Blair, Simon Keynes), Wiley-Blackwell, 2000, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-631-22492-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-631-22492-0">0-631-22492-0</a>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-631-22492-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-631-22492-1">978-0-631-22492-1</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leslie_E._Webster" class="mw-redirect" title="Leslie E. Webster">Webster, Leslie</a> (2012a), <i>Anglo-Saxon Art</i>, British Museum Press, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780714128092" title="Special:BookSources/9780714128092">9780714128092</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leslie_E._Webster" class="mw-redirect" title="Leslie E. Webster">Webster, Leslie</a> (2012b), <i>The Franks Casket: Objects in Focus</i>, British Museum Press, 2012b, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780714128184" title="Special:BookSources/9780714128184">9780714128184</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_M._Wilson" title="David M. Wilson">Wilson, David M.</a>; <i>Anglo-Saxon Art: From The Seventh Century To The Norman Conquest</i>, Thames and Hudson (US edn. Overlook Press), 1984.</li> <li>Wood, Ian N., "Ripon, Francia and the Franks Casket in the Early Middle Ages", <i>Northern History</i>, 26 (1990), pp. 1–19.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literature">Literature</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Franks_Casket&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em"> <ul><li>Richard Abels, “What Has Weland to Do with Christ? The Franks Casket and the Acculturation of Christianity in Early Anglo-Saxon England.” <i>Speculum</i> 84, no. 3 (July 2009), 549–581.</li> <li>Alfred Becker, "Franks Casket Revisited," <i>Asterisk, A Quarterly Journal of Historical English Studies</i>, 12/2 (2003), 83-128.</li> <li>Alfred Becker, "The Virgin and the Vamp," <i>Asterisk, A Quarterly Journal of Historical English Studies</i>, 12/4 (2003), 201-209.</li> <li>Alfred Becker, "A Magic Spell "powered by" a Lunisolar Calendar," <i>Asterisk, A Quarterly Journal of Historical English Studies</i>, 15 (2006), 55 -73.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Clunies_Ross" title="Margaret Clunies Ross">M. Clunies Ross</a>, <i>A suggested Interpretation of the Scene depicted on the Right-Hand Side of the Franks Casket</i>, Medieval Archaeology 14 (1970), pp. 148–152.</li> <li>Jane Hawkes and Susan Mills (editors), <i>Northumbria's Golden Age</i> (1999); with articles by <a href="/wiki/Leslie_E._Webster" class="mw-redirect" title="Leslie E. Webster">L. Webster</a>, James Lang, C. Neuman de Vegvar on various aspects of the casket.</li> <li>W. Krogmann, "Die Verse vom Wal auf dem Runenkästchen von Auzon," <i>Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift</i>, N.F. 9 (1959), pp. 88–94.</li> <li>J. Lang, "The Imagery of the Franks Casket: Another Approach," in J. Hawkes & S. Mills (ed.) <i>Northumbria’s Golden Age</i> (1999) pp. 247 – 255</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kemp_Malone" title="Kemp Malone">K. Malone</a>, "The Franks Casket and the Date of Widsith," in A.H. Orrick (ed.), <i>Nordica et Anglica, Studies in Honor of Stefán Einarsson</i>, The Hague 1968, pp. 10–18.</li> <li>Th. Müller-Braband,<i> Studien zum Runenkästchen von Auzon und zum Schiffsgrab von Sutton Hoo</i>; Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik 728 (2005)</li> <li>M. Osborn, "The Grammar of the Inscription on the Franks Casket, right Side," <i>Neuphilologische Mitteilungen</i> 73 (1972), pp. 663–671.</li> <li>M. Osborn, <i>The Picture-Poem on the Front of the Franks Casket</i>, Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 75 (1974), pp. 50–65.</li> <li>P. W. Souers, "The Top of the Franks Casket," <i>Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature</i>, 17 (1935), pp. 163–179.</li> <li>P. W. Souers, "The Franks Casket: Left Side," <i>Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature</i>, 18 (1936), pp. 199–209.</li> <li>P. W. Souers, "The Magi on the Franks Casket," <i>Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature</i>, 19 (1937), pp. 249–254.</li> <li>P. W. Souers, "The Wayland Scene on the Franks Casket," <i>Speculum</i> 18 (1943), pp. 104–111.</li> <li>K. Spiess, "Das angelsächsische Runenkästchen (die Seite mit der Hos-Inschrift)," in <i>Josef Strzygowski-Festschrift</i>, Klagenfurt 1932, pp. 160–168.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leslie_E._Webster" class="mw-redirect" title="Leslie E. Webster">L. Webster</a>, "The Iconographic Programme of the Franks Casket," in J. Hawkes & S. Mills (ed.) <i>Northumbria’s Golden Age</i> (1999), pp. 227 – 246</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leslie_E._Webster" class="mw-redirect" title="Leslie E. Webster">L. Webster</a>, "Stylistic Aspects of the Franks Casket," in R. Farrell (ed.), <i>The Vikings</i>, London 1982, pp. 20–31.</li> <li>A. 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Posted 25 Aug. 2012.</li> <li>Boulton, Meg, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21NKN78-igk">Considering the institutional narratives and object narratives of the Franks Casket</a>, public lecture at the University of York, Feb. 3, 2015.</li> <li>British Library, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-franks-casket">The Franks Casket</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210225084243/https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-franks-casket">Archived</a> 25 February 2021 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>.</li> <li>British Museum, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1867-0120-1">The Franks Casket / The Auzon Casket</a></li> <li>British Library, UK Web Archive <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150608050627/http://www.franks-casket.de/english/"><i>Franks Casket</i></a>, preserving Alfred Becker's website.</li> <li>Drout, Michael D. C., '<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mdrout.webspace.wheatoncollege.edu/category/franks-casket/">The Franks Casket</a>', <i>Anglo-Saxon Aloud</i> (15 February 2008) (readings of the poems on the front and right-hand panels).</li> <li>Foys, Martin, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://uw.digitalmappa.org/33">The Franks Casket: a Digital Edition</a>', Edition of the runic inscriptions, with high-resolution images of each side of the object.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janina_Ramirez" title="Janina Ramirez">Ramirez, Janina</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t6xzx">Treasures of the Anglo Saxons</a>. BBC Four production first broadcast 10 Aug. 2010. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQrfSHlhapo">Part 3 of 4</a> discusses the Franks Casket and the Welund legend.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janina_Ramirez" title="Janina Ramirez">Ramirez, Janina</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.acast.com/artdetective/thefrankscasket-withtonyrobinson">"The Franks Casket - with Tony Robinson"</a>. Podcast in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.acast.com/">acast</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.acast.com/artdetective/">Art Detective</a> series. Published Feb. 22, 2017.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_West_(linguist)" title="Andrew West (linguist)">West, Andrew</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/AngloSaxon.html">Anglo-Saxon Runic fonts</a>.</li> <li>West, Andrew, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/FranksCasket.html">Runic Text on the Franks Casket</a>.</li> <li>Wright, Andrew [Deor Reader], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://deorreader.wordpress.com/2017/12/23/horsing-around-thorny-problem-of-the-franks-casket-reveals-another-riddle/">Horsing Around? — Thorny Problem of the Franks Casket Reveals Another Riddle</a>, Dec. 23, 2017. 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class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#cc9;;width:1%">Locations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Midgard" title="Midgard">Middangeard</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#cc9;;width:1%">Sources</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle" title="Anglo-Saxon Chronicle">Anglo-Saxon Chronicle</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/%C3%86cerbot" title="Æcerbot">Æcerbot</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rune_poems#Anglo-Saxon_Rune_Poem" class="mw-redirect" title="Rune poems">Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Beowulf" title="Beowulf">Beowulf</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/De_temporum_ratione" class="mw-redirect" title="De temporum ratione">De temporum ratione</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Deor" title="Deor">Deor</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ealuscerwen" title="Ealuscerwen">Ealuscerwen</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finnesburg_Fragment" title="Finnesburg Fragment">Finnesburg Fragment</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Franks Casket</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Historia_ecclesiastica_gentis_Anglorum" class="mw-redirect" title="Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum">Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nine_Herbs_Charm" title="Nine Herbs Charm">Nine Herbs Charm</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_English" title="Old English">Old English language</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spong_Hill" title="Spong Hill">Spong Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sutton_Hoo" title="Sutton Hoo">Sutton Hoo</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Widsith" title="Widsith">Widsith</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wi%C3%B0_f%C3%A6rstice" title="Wið færstice">Wið færstice</a></i></li></ul> 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title="Anglo-Saxon law">Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maypole" title="Maypole">Maypole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_metrical_charms" title="Anglo-Saxon metrical charms">Metrical charms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moot_hill" title="Moot hill">Moot hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_runes" title="Anglo-Saxon runes">Runes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rings_in_Germanic_cultures" class="mw-redirect" title="Rings in Germanic cultures">Rings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scop" title="Scop">Scop</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Symbel" title="Symbel">Symbel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thegn" title="Thegn">Thegn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thing_(assembly)" title="Thing (assembly)">Thing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thyle" title="Thyle">Thyle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weregild" title="Weregild">Weregild</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%B6lva" class="mw-redirect" title="Völva">Wicce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wetlands_and_islands_in_Germanic_paganism" title="Wetlands and islands 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_II_Great_Court" title="Queen Elizabeth II Great Court">Great Court</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Library" title="King's Library">King's Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Museum_Reading_Room" title="British Museum Reading Room">Round Reading Room</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left;">Departments<br />and objects</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;"><a href="/wiki/British_Museum_Department_of_Africa,_Oceania_and_the_Americas" class="mw-redirect" title="British Museum Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas">Africa, Oceania<br />and Americas</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Akan_Drum" title="Akan Drum">Akan Drum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aubin_Codex" title="Aubin Codex">Aubin Codex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benin_Bronzes" title="Benin Bronzes">Benin Bronzes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Briggs_Enigma" title="Briggs Enigma">Briggs Enigma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bronze_Head_from_Ife" title="Bronze Head from Ife">Bronze Head from Ife</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Codex_Kingsborough" title="Codex Kingsborough">Codex Kingsborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Double-headed_serpent" title="Double-headed serpent">Double-headed serpent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hoa_Hakananai%27a" title="Hoa Hakananai'a">Hoa Hakananai'a</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Throne_of_Weapons" title="Throne of Weapons">Throne of Weapons</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kayung_totem_pole" title="Kayung totem pole">Kayung totem pole</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tree_of_Life_(Kester)" title="Tree of Life (Kester)">Tree of Life</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yaxchilan_Lintel_24" title="Yaxchilan Lintel 24">Yaxchilan Lintel 24</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;"><a href="/wiki/British_Museum_Department_of_Ancient_Egypt_and_Sudan" title="British Museum Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan">Ancient Egypt<br />and Sudan</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battlefield_Palette" title="Battlefield Palette">Battlefield Palette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colossal_quartzite_statue_of_Amenhotep_III" title="Colossal quartzite statue of Amenhotep III">Colossal quartzite statue of Amenhotep III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colossal_red_granite_statue_of_Amenhotep_III" title="Colossal red granite statue of Amenhotep III">Colossal head of Amenhotep III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El-Amra_clay_model_of_cattle" title="El-Amra clay model of cattle">El-Amra clay model of cattle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gebelein_predynastic_mummies" title="Gebelein predynastic mummies">Gebelein predynastic mummies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenfield_papyrus" class="mw-redirect" title="Greenfield papyrus">Greenfield papyrus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hornedjitef" title="Hornedjitef">Hornedjitef</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunters_Palette" title="Hunters Palette">Hunters Palette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MacGregor_plaque" title="MacGregor plaque">MacGregor plaque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Min_Palette" title="Min Palette">Min Palette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papyrus_of_Ani" title="Papyrus of Ani">Papyrus of Ani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prudhoe_Lions" title="Prudhoe Lions">Prudhoe Lions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhind_Mathematical_Papyrus" title="Rhind Mathematical Papyrus">Rhind Mathematical Papyrus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rosetta_Stone" title="Rosetta Stone">Rosetta Stone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sphinx_of_Taharqo" title="Sphinx of Taharqo">Sphinx of Taharqo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statues_of_Amun_in_the_form_of_a_ram_protecting_King_Taharqa" title="Statues of Amun in the form of a ram protecting King Taharqa">Amun in the form of a ram protecting King Taharqa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Younger_Memnon" title="Younger Memnon">Younger Memnon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;"><a href="/wiki/British_Museum_Department_of_Asia" title="British Museum Department of Asia">Asia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Admonitions_Scroll" title="Admonitions Scroll">Admonitions Scroll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aphsad_inscription_of_%C4%80dityasena" title="Aphsad inscription of Ādityasena">Aphsad inscription of Ādityasena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amaravati_Marbles" title="Amaravati Marbles">Amaravati Marbles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ambika_Statue_from_Dhar" title="Ambika Statue from Dhar">Ambika Statue from Dhar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amit%C4%81bha_Buddha_from_Hancui" title="Amitābha Buddha from Hancui">Amitābha Buddha from Hancui</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bimaran_casket" title="Bimaran casket">Bimaran casket</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhapad_Hoard" title="Buddhapad Hoard">Buddhapad Hoard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mogao_Christian_painting" title="Mogao Christian painting">Mogao Christian painting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Vases" title="David Vases">David Vases</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhaneswar_Khera_Buddha_image_inscription" title="Dhaneswar Khera Buddha image inscription">Dhaneswar Khera Buddha image inscription</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hephthalite_silver_bowl" title="Hephthalite silver bowl">Hephthalite silver bowl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huixian_Bronze_Hu" title="Huixian Bronze Hu">Huixian Bronze Hu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jade_terrapin_from_Allahabad" title="Jade terrapin from Allahabad">Jade terrapin from Allahabad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kakiemon_elephants_(British_Museum)" title="Kakiemon elephants (British Museum)">Kakiemon elephants</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kang_Hou_gui" title="Kang Hou gui">Kang Hou gui</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanishka_casket" class="mw-redirect" title="Kanishka casket">Kanishka casket</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klang_Bell" title="Klang Bell">Klang Bell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kulu_Vase" title="Kulu Vase">Kulu Vase</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mathura_lion_capital" title="Mathura lion capital">Mathura lion capital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Percival_David_Foundation_of_Chinese_Art" title="Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art">Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seated_Buddha_from_Gandhara" title="Seated Buddha from Gandhara">Seated Buddha from Gandhara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stamp_seal_(BM_119999)" title="Stamp seal (BM 119999)">Stamp seal (BM 119999)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Tara" title="Statue of Tara">Statue of Tara</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa" title="The Great Wave off Kanagawa">The Great Wave off Kanagawa</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vishnu_Nicolo_Seal" class="mw-redirect" title="Vishnu Nicolo Seal">Vishnu Nicolo Seal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wardak_Vase" title="Wardak Vase">Wardak Vase</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;"><a href="/wiki/British_Museum_Department_of_Greece_and_Rome" class="mw-redirect" title="British Museum Department of Greece and Rome">Greece<br />and Rome</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aegina_Treasure" title="Aegina Treasure">Aegina Treasure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aineta_aryballos" title="Aineta aryballos">Aineta aryballos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_of_Cyrene" title="Apollo of Cyrene">Apollo of Cyrene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archangel_ivory" title="Archangel ivory">Archangel ivory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arcisate_Treasure" title="Arcisate Treasure">Arcisate Treasure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armento_Rider" title="Armento Rider">Armento Rider</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arundel_Head" title="Arundel Head">Arundel Head</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asclepius_of_Milos" title="Asclepius of Milos">Asclepius of Milos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barber_Cup_and_Crawford_Cup" title="Barber Cup and Crawford Cup">Barber Cup and Crawford Cup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bassae_Frieze" title="Bassae Frieze">Bassae Frieze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beaurains_Treasure" title="Beaurains Treasure">Beaurains Treasure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blacas_Cameo" title="Blacas Cameo">Blacas Cameo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boscoreale_Treasure" title="Boscoreale Treasure">Boscoreale Treasure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boy_with_Thorn" title="Boy with Thorn">Boy with Thorn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Braganza_Brooch" title="Braganza Brooch">Braganza Brooch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bronze_Head_of_Hypnos_from_Civitella_d%27Arna" title="Bronze Head of Hypnos from Civitella d'Arna">Bronze head of Hypnos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burgon_vase" title="Burgon vase">Burgon vase</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bursa_Treasure" title="Bursa Treasure">Bursa Treasure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Campo_Iemini_Venus" title="Campo Iemini Venus">Campo Iemini Venus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carthage_Treasure" title="Carthage Treasure">Carthage Treasure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caubiac_Treasure" title="Caubiac Treasure">Caubiac Treasure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chaourse_Treasure" title="Chaourse Treasure">Chaourse Treasure</a></li> 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