This small box of whale bone is carved in low relief with scenes that mix Germanic legend, Roman history and Christian story: the smith Weland taking revenge, Romulus and Remus with the wolf, the Adoration of the Magi, the Roman capture of Jerusalem. Probably made in a Northumbrian monastery, it is framed with inscriptions mostly in Old English runes.
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The runes around the front panel form a riddle about the casket's own material, a great fish beached on the shingle. Some inscriptions run upside down or backwards.
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