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Diversity between Panels of the Franks Casket – Spelling and Runic Paleography

Author(s) -

Helena Sobol

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

anglica an international journal of english studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101

H-Index - 1

ISSN - 0860-5734

DOI - 10.7311/0860-5734.26.2.02

Subject(s) - spelling , inscribed figure , palaeography , diversity (politics) , literature , history , art , linguistics , mathematics , philosophy , anthropology , sociology , geometry

The Franks Casket, a small whalebone box from about 700 AD, contains 59 Old English words inscribed in runes. Systematic differences between its panels have never called into question the standard procedure of explaining one panel basing on the others. The present paper aims at a re-examination of the validity of this approach. The panels show a large enough differentiation of spelling and paleographical features to exclude the possibility of a single author for the whole Casket.

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