Franks Casket, c700-800 AD, right panel
On the left side we see an animal figure sitting on a small rounded mound opposite an armed warrior with helmet. In mid seen a standing animal, usually interpreted as a horse. At right are three figures with robes with a hood. The two on each side keeps maybe the person in the middle stuck. There have been very discussion on the interpretation of the runic text, including because runes written without spaces between words, and partly because two runes are broken or missing. It is also used secret runes by vowels is encrypted and written with "unknown symbols". Raymond Page reads the inscription: Hennes Hos sitiþ på harmberga AGL [ . ] drigiþ SWA hiræ Ertae gisgraf sarden Sorga og Sefa torna . risci / Wudu / bit Here Hos sits on the sorrow-mound; She suffers distress as Ertae had imposed it upon her, a wretched den (?wood) of sorrows and of torments of mind. Rushes / wood / biter









