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    The Franks Casket (or the Auzon Casket) is a small Anglo-Saxon whale's bone (not "whalebone" in the sense of baleen) chest from the early 8th century,...
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    Romulus and Remus (Romwalus and Reumwalus) and two wolves on the Franks Casket: Franks Casket, Helpers on the way to war Romulous and Remus on the Ara Pacis...
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    and the same legend is reflected in Old English Ægil [ˈæɡil] of the Franks Casket and Alamannic Aigil of the Pforzen buckle. The Proto-Germanic form of...
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  • runes used by J. R. R. Tolkien, and the special vowel signs used in the Franks Casket inscription. The distinction made by Unicode between character and glyph...
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    Norns (section Franks Casket)
    toil ... they created for me. Three women carved on the right panel of Franks Casket, an Anglo-Saxon whalebone chest from the eighth century, have been identified...
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    similar stories, most prominently the Old English poem Deor and the Franks Casket. Wayland is also mentioned in passing in a wide range of texts, such...
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    (Austin Simmons, The Cipherment of the Franks Casket) Titus is twice depicted on the back side of the Franks Casket. Media related to Titus (category) at...
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    Simmons, The Cipherment of the Franks Casket. (https://web.archive.org/web/20120303013402/http://homeros.godsong.org/FRANKS_CASKET.pdf) Norbert Wagner, Zu den...
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    century and possibly on the front panel of the 7th century Anglo-Saxon Franks Casket. However, Austin Simmons has recently argued that it is not Niðhad who...
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    script, or Old English and Latin, on the same object, including the Franks Casket and St Cuthbert's coffin; in the latter, three of the names of the Four...
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    of the Franks Casket (PDF). Hellmouth (or the whale as constituting Hell) is inferred in the inscription on the front side of the Franks Casket. Media...
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    Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks KCB FRS FSA (20 March 1826 – 21 May 1897) was a British antiquarian and museum administrator. Franks was described by Marjorie...
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    Venus figurines. The Anglo-Saxon Franks Casket is a whale bone casket imitating earlier ivory ones. Medieval bone caskets were made by the Embriachi workshop...
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    late Roman Empire. The 4th century Brescia Casket, 8th century Franks Casket and 10th-11th century Veroli Casket are all in elaborately carved ivory, a popular...
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    artists also worked in fresco, stone, ivory and whalebone (notably the Franks Casket), metalwork (for example the Fuller brooch), glass and enamel, many...
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    Vespasian The Cipherment of the Franks Casket; A. Simmons; Vespasian is depicted on the back side of the Franks Casket Wikimedia Commons has media related...
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    as "receiving the myrrh". The picture of the Magi on the 7th-century Franks Casket shows the third visitor – he who brings myrrh – with a valknut over...
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    appears in Deor, Waldere, and Beowulf; the legend is depicted on the Franks Casket. Arthurian tales: see King Arthur. The Tales of Robin Hood and his Merry...
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    Archaeology Society Austin Simmons, The Cipherment of the Franks Casket (PDF) The fiscus Judaicus is depicted on the back side of the Franks Casket....
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  • luda:gibœtæsigilæ "Luda repaired the brooch" the left panel of the Franks Casket, twice: tƿœgen gibroþær afœddæ hiæ ƿylif "two brothers (scil. Romulus...
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    such synthesis can be seen in previous examples, such as the Franks Casket. The Franks Casket, believed to have been produced in Northumbria, includes depictions...
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    Historical English Studies. 15.[full citation needed] Becker, Alfred (1973). Franks Casket. Zu den Bildern und Inschriften des Runenkästchens von Auzon. Regensburg...
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    attested examples of Old English and is, with the runic Ruthwell Cross and Franks Casket inscriptions, one of three candidates for the earliest attested example...
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    a medieval belief in the magical significance of runes, such as the Franks Casket (AD 700) panel. Charm words, such as auja, laþu, laukaʀ, and most commonly...
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  • but the oldest coherent runic texts (notably the inscriptions on the Franks Casket) date to the early 8th century. The Old English Latin alphabet was introduced...
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  • script, features on the Franks Casket. One possible solution for the riddle is 'whale', evoking the whale-bone from which the casket made. The Vercelli Book...
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    of the Rood, some of which is also carved on the Ruthwell Cross. The Franks Casket also has carved riddles, a popular form with the Anglo-Saxons. Old English...
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    mythology, and a depiction of him is believed to be present on the Franks Casket, on display in the British Museum in London. It was most likely named...
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    silver, armour and coins. The formerly lost right-hand panel of the Franks Casket is held by the museum. It also features the competing designs for The...
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    earliest attestations of the heroic tradition is on the Anglo-Saxon Franks Casket (c. 700), which depicts a scene from the legend of Wayland the smith:...
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