• The inscriptions on the Franks Casket are alliterative verse, and so give particular emphasis to one or more runes on each side.
  • In complement to the extant literature of the Anglo-Saxon period, the Franks casket offers insights into the allusive and eclectic taste of an Anglo-Saxon audience.
  • The Franks Casket is an odd and interesting relic from a forgotten time with a rather misleading name. It was neither crafted by the Franks nor is it a ...
  • The dating and place of origin of the Franks casket comes mainly from the linguistic evidence of the words and the artistic style of the carvings.
  • Where is Franks Casket? It was first recorded in the possession of a family at Auzon in the Auvergne, during which time it was… dismantled.
  • The runic text of the Franks Casket is transcribed below in Unicode. Five cryptogrammic runes for the vowel letters that occur on the right panel of the casket were...
  • The remaining panels were presented to the British Museum by one of its greatest benefactors, Sir Augustus Franks, after whom the casket is named.
  • The Franks Casket. Early 8th century Anglo-Saxon. On the right side of the front of the casket is a highly stylized version of the Adoration of the Magi.
  • One of 'Anglo-Saxon' England's most alluring but mysterious archaeological finds, the beautifully engraved Franks Casket features a set of complex …