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Summary: The Franks Casket is a medieval whalebone artifact likely dating from late 7th or early 8th century Anglo-Saxon England. Its namesake comes from Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, who recovered it in France in the mid-19th c. and eventually donated it to the British Museum, where it's been housed ever since. The casket was especially prominent and even achieved a certain degree of fame, as far as moyenetatic antiques go, throughout the late Victorian Era; but well into the 20th century, now into the 21st, the philologists and art-historians drawn to it could make only limited sense of the words and pictures carved into the panels. I learned of the casket in January 2009, worked on it through June and distributed a preliminary paper in early July; continued work and gave a talk at the annual TEMA (Texas Medieval Association) conference in October; continued work, and put together a final paper which has been available free online since January 2010. It is the same paper linked here; I have since moved onto other projects and other affairs, as I had said here what I felt needed saying.
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