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Franks Casket, c800 AD, left panel
The right side shows Romulus and Remus being nursed by a wolf (Shewolf) and men with spears at each side on both sides. The runic text reads: romwalusandreumwalustwægen | gibroþær | afoeddæhiæwylifinromæcæstri: | oþlæunneg The text can be interpreted according Page "Romwalus og Reumwalus, twægen gibroþær, afoeddæ hiæ wylif i Romæcæstri, oþlæ unneg" "Romulus and Remus, two brothers, a she-wolf nourished them in Rome, far from their native land".
Franks Casket, c700-800 AD, front side
Above where the three wise men are depicted, stands a small inscription for himself which reads: mægi The text around pictures reads: fisc · flodu · | ahofonferg | enberig | warþga: sricgrornþærheongreutgiswom | hronæsban Runic text is accompanied to Page, two lines of alliterative verse: fisc flodu ahof på fergenberig Warth gasric grorn Thaer han på Greut giswom According Page can this be translated "the flood lifted up the fish on the cliff-bank. The whale became sad, where he swam on the shingle. Whale´s bone" The text can be a riddle that describes the origin of the material used to produce the coffin, namely whalebone.
Franks Casket, c700-800 AD
Anglo-saxon box made of whale's bone. Franks coffin or casket measures 12.9 x 22.9 x 19.1 cm and is dated to ca. 700 AD. It is known that it was in a church in Haute Loire in the 1800s, when it was owned by the Auzon family, and later was split into several parts, but at last all the parts were gathered together and is now in British Museum. The coffin is a great piece of work, and richly decorated with both Christians and motives related to pagan beliefs. There are eleven inscriptions, beautifully carved on the five sides of the casket. They are all runic texts, with the exception of three words that are skrevt with Latin letters respectively Latin and Old English language. It is also used secret runes, in that consonants in the inscription are written in plain form, while vowels are replaced with arbitrary shapes.
