The Franks Casket

A different branch of runic writing.

This Anglo-Saxon casket combines carved scenes with inscriptions. Its front includes a runic riddle about the whale whose bone supplied the material. The futhorc branch uses additional signs, so the Elder Futhark course alone does not explain every letter on the object.

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