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Woruldhord
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The Franks Casket
Description
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AN00469340_001_l. Franks Casket. Lidded rectangular box made of whale-bone, carved on the sides and top in relief with scenes from Roman, Jewish, Christian and Germanic tradition. The base is constructed from four sides slotted and pegged into corner uprights, the bottom plates fitted into grooves at the base of the sides. It possibly stood on four low feet. Only one decorative panel now survives in the lid, the remaining elements being almost certainly replacements. There are scars left by lost metal fittings on the exterior - handle, lock, hasps and hinges - and crude internal repairs. The five surviving decorated panels are variously accompanied by carved texts in Old English and Latin, using both conventional and encoded runes as well as Insular script, in a variety of orientations. Each side is bordered by a long descriptive text and three contain additional labels; the lid panel has only the latter, though a longer text may originally have accompanied it. The front is divided in two: the left half shows a composite scene from the Weland the Smith legend, the right half, the Adoration of the Magi, with the label 'mægi' carved above the kings. The main inscription takes the form of a riddling alliterative verse about the casket's origin. The left-hand end depicts Romulus and Remus nurtured by the wolf with an inscription describing the scene. The back panel shows the capture of Jerusalem in AD 70 by the Roman general, later emperor, Titus: labels on the two lower corners read 'dom' = 'judgment', and 'gisl' = 'hostage' respectively. The main inscription is in a mixture of Old English, Latin, runes and insular script. The right-hand end poses special problems of interpretation. The apparently episodic scene is evidently from Germanic legend but has not been satisfactorily identified. Three labels read: 'risci' = 'rush', 'wudu' = 'wood' and 'bita' = 'biter'. The main runic text is in alliterative verse partly encoded by substituting cryptic forms for most of its vowels and perhaps certain other letters. The lid appears to depict an episode relating to the Germanic hero Egil and has the single label 'aegili' = 'Egil'.
Date
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8th century
Temporal Coverage
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700-800
Creator
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British Museum
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The British Museum
Subject
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Art history
Archaeology
Art history
British Museum
Franks Casket
Ivory
Mythology
Old English language
Old English literature
Religion
Runes
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Woruldhord
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Loki stone
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In the church of Kirkby Stephen (Cumbria) is a stone carved in relief with an image of the Norse god Loki, a horned figure bound in chains. I have read that Anglo-Saxon Christians may have made this carving to demonstrate their dominion over Norse Gods but I'm not sure what the evidential basis of that is.
Date Created
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2008-08-18
Date
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8th century?
Temporal Coverage
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700-1000
Creator
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Horn, Wylie
Source
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Wylie Horn
Subject
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Archaeology
Archaeology
Art history
Mythology
Religion
Stonework
Viking
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http://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/files/original/003a1463db67541ee149cb23c0371b8b.pdf
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The Cipherment of the Franks Casket
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Woruldhord
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The Cipherment of the Franks Casket
Description
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In 1857 the antiquarian and prodigious benefactor Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks lighted on a small, odd-looking whalebone box in an antique shop in Paris. He purchased it immediately, having recognized that the box was of Anglo-Saxon origin, and donated it to the British Museum some years later; it would come to be known as "the Franks Casket" in his honor.
It was immediately recognized as a very singular piece, and one of singular importance (not merely to Anglo-Saxon studies). The unknown medieval artist who wrought the Franks Casket carved it intricately with scenes from myth and legend originating in different traditions -- Roman, Germanic, and Christian -- but perhaps quite at home in a culture as composite as that of Anglo-Saxon England. Framing these panel-pictures, or within them, are inscriptions that alternate between Latin and runic Anglo-Saxon, and it has been (rightly) taken for granted that they explain or describe the artwork in some way.
In general, however, too much has been taken for granted with respect to the casket over the past 150 years, and while scholars have made some important steps toward its understanding, ill attention has generally been paid the crucial details of the artwork, while linguistic problems with certain of the casket's captions have kept us from reading what may be among the oldest lines of English poetry.
The Franks Casket thus remains one of the oldest and greatest outstanding puzzles in Anglo-Saxon studies, indeed of medieval studies, and as it lies at the intersection of history, linguistics, poetry and art, there are many who should like to see it "deciphered."
I first learned of the casket in January 2009, published a preliminary essay in July, and gave a talk at the University of Texas in autumn that same year. The form of the essay presented here is current as it was first published and distributed in late January 2010.
I have attempted to engage the Franks Casket as a whole, every side, each inscription, presenting my own vision of the casket's meanings, while attempting to vindicate it as a nuanced, authentic work of art.
Date Created
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2010-01-25
Date
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7th-8th century
Temporal Coverage
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2000-2010
Creator
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Austin Simmons
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Contributor's own resource
Language
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English
Subject
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Art history
Art history
Article
Bone
Educational resource
Franks Casket
Mythology
Old English language
Religion
Runes