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The Date and Provenance of the Franks Casket

Previous articleNext article No AccessThe Date and Provenance of the Franks CasketAmy L. VandersallAmy L. Vandersall Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Gesta Volume 11, Number 21972 Sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/766591 Views: 20Total views on this site Citations: 1Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1973 International Center of Medieval ArtPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Helena Sobol Diversity between Panels of the Franks Casket – Spelling and Runic Paleography, Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies , no.26/226/2 (Sep 2017): 25–36.https://doi.org/10.7311/0860-5734.26.2.02

The Smith and the Goddess. Two Figures on the Franks Casket from Auzon

The Smith and the Goddess. Two Figures on the Franks Casket from Auzon

The Franks Casket's

The Franks Casket's

The Wayland Scene on the Franks Casket

The Wayland Scene on the Franks Casket

The Right Side of the Franks Casket

Professor Napier, discussing the Franks Casket a quarter of a century ago, concluded with these words:I hope that these suggestions may have thrown some light on the mysterious inscription on the Florence fragment, or at any rate may advance us nearer to its complete elucidation. A thoroughly satisfactory solution of all the problems connected with it is scarcely to be hoped for until we know to what the carving refers, who the actors, and what the scenes were thereon depicted.

Wayland's Smithy, Berkshire

In Northern mythology Wayland the Smith corresponds to the Roman Vulcan or the Greek Hephaestus; and his name cannot have been attached to the well-known group of sarsen slabs in Berkshire till the Teutonic invaders reached the upper Thames in the fifth century. This cunning worker in metals appears on the Franks casket in the British Museum, dating from soon after 700; and the monument is mentioned under the name of Wayland's Smithy in a charter of King Eadred to Aelfheh dated 955.

98. The Animal-Headed Figure on the Franks Casket.

98. The Animal-Headed Figure on the Franks Casket.