Open AccessDiversity between Panels of the Franks Casket – Spelling and Runic Paleography
Author(s) -
Helena Sobol
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
anglica
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 , palaeography , inscribed figure , art , literature , linguistics , mathematics , philosophy , 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.