* Franks Casket

* the Franks Casket

* Austin Simmons, The Cipherment of the Franks Casket ( PDF )

Some of the most important surviving works of Old English literature are Beowulf, an epic poem ; the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a record of early English history ; the Franks Casket, an early whalebone artefact ; and Caedmon's Hymn, a Christian religious poem.

* ( Austin Simmons, The Cipherment of the Franks Casket ) Titus is twice depicted on the back side of the Franks Casket.

* Romulus and Remus ( Romwalus and Reumwalus ) and two wolves on the Franks Casket: Franks Casket, Helpers on the way to war

The poem is one of the earliest attested examples of Old English and is, with the runic Ruthwell Cross and Franks Casket inscriptions, one of three candidates for the earliest attested example of Old English poetry.

* Becker, Alfred: “ Franks Casket.

* Alfred Becker, Franks Casket

In Old English sources, he appears in Deor, Waldere and in Beowulf and the legend is depicted on the Franks Casket.

The hamstrung smith Weyland from the front of the Franks Casket ( see text ).

The Franks Casket is one of a number of other Anglo-Saxon references to Wayland, whose story was evidently well known and popular, although no extended version in Old English has survived.

In the front panel of the Franks Casket, incongruously paired with an Adoration of the Magi, Wayland stands at the extreme left in the forge where he is held as a slave by King Niðhad, who has had his hamstrings cut to hobble him.

* Austin Simmons, The Cipherment of the Franks Casket ( PDF )

* Weland on the Franks Casket ; essay on the Saga

The poem is one of the earliest attested examples of Old English and is, with the runic Ruthwell Cross and Franks Casket inscriptions, one of three candidates for the earliest attested example of Old English poetry.

* Austin Simmons, The Cipherment of the Franks Casket An apocryphal tradition reflected in the Vindicta Salvatoris ( see Old English literature ) very likely influenced the art carved into the back of the Franks Casket ; this article argues that the Descensus ad Infernos is alluded to on the casket's ill-understood right side.

Eormenric ’ s name provides a hint of connections to the kingdom of the Franks, across the English channel ; the element " Eormen " was rare in names of the Anglo-Saxon aristocracy, but much more common among Frankish nobles.

Sculpture of King Æthelberht of Kent, an Anglo-Saxon king and saint, on Canterbury Cathedral in England. There are many indications of close relations between Kent and the Franks.

It was in use among the ancient Burgundians, Ripuarian Franks, Alamans, Lombards, and Swedes ( but is notably absent from Anglo-Saxon law ).

The legend of Níðuðr and Wayland also appears on the Gotlandic Ardre image stone VIII from the 8th century and possibly on the front panel of the 7th century Anglo-Saxon Franks Casket.

* Ivory: Nimrud ivories from much of the Near East, Late Antique Consular diptychs, the Byzantine Harbaville Triptych and Veroli Casket, the Anglo-Saxon Franks Casket, Cloisters Cross.

Hugh the Great, Duke of the Franks, sent one to the Anglo-Saxon King Athelstan in 927, on the occasion of certain marriage negotiations, and it eventually found its way to Malmesbury Abbey.

It is moreover depicted on a panel of the 7th century Anglo-Saxon Franks Casket and on the 8th century Gotlandic Ardre image stone VIII.

Anglo-Saxon artists also worked in fresco, stone, ivory and whalebone ( notably the Franks Casket ), metalwork ( for example the Fuller brooch ), glass and enamel, many examples of which have been recovered through archaeological excavation and some of which have simply been preserved over the centuries, especially in churches on the Continent, as the Vikings, Normans and Reformation iconoclasm between them left virtually nothing in England except for books and archaeological finds.

After the conversion, which took most of the 7th century, the fusion of Germanic Anglo-Saxon, Celtic and Late Antique techniques and motifs, together with the requirement for books, created Hiberno-Saxon style, or Insular art, which is also seen in illuminated manuscripts and some carved stone and ivory, probably mostly drawing from decorative metalwork motifs, and with further influences from the British Celts of the west and the Franks.

The right half of the front panel of the seventh century Franks Casket, depicting the pan-Germanic legend of Weyland Smith also Weyland The Smith, which was apparently also a part of Anglo-Saxon pagan mythology.

An image of Weyland adorns the Franks Casket, an Anglo-Saxon royal hoard box and was meant there to refer to wealth and partnership.

No larger settlements, however, have been found to have existed in this remote rural area, located at least 15 km from the nearest road even in Roman times, up to the early medieval period when the place is mentioned as a king's mansion for the first time, not long before Charlemagne became ruler of the Germanic Franks.

In 341-2, Constans led a successful campaign against the Franks and in the early months of 343 visited Britain.

The Visigoths under Alaric I sacked Rome in 410, defeated Attila at the Battle of the Catalunian Plains in 451, and founded a Kingdom in Aquitaine which was pushed to Hispania by the Franks in 507, converted to Catholicism by the late sixth century, and in the early eighth century conquered by the Muslim Moors.

Despite the early conquest of southern Gaul by the Franks after the Battle of Vouillé in 507, the Frankish element was feeble south of the Loire, where Gothic and Gallo-Roman Law prevailed and a small Frankish settlement took place.

In these sources he appears as invading the Frankish Kingdoms during the reign of Theodericus I, the son of Chlodovechius I the king of the Franks in the early sixth century, and was killed by a military force led by Theodebertus I, the son of Theodocius I the king of the Franks.

Salic law ( or ; ), or, was the major body of Frankish law governing all the Franks of Frankia under the rule of its kings during the Old Frankish Period, approximately equal to the early Middle Ages.

In the early 5th century the town had become the administrative centre of the Nervii in replacement of Bavay which was probably too exposed to the Franks ' raids and perhaps too damaged.

* U. S. plan to invade Iraq: White House and Pentagon officials announce that Gen. Tommy Franks presented detailed war plans to President Bush in early September.

This in turn comes from the word Frank via the Arabic word firinjīyah, which was used to refer to the Franks, a West Germanic tribe that became the biggest political power in Western Europe during the early Middle Ages and from which France derives its name.

Through direct signings or distribution deals, the Reprise roster grew to include Lee Hazlewood, Jill Jackson, the early Joni Mitchell recordings, Neil Young, The Electric Prunes, Donna Loren, Arlo Guthrie, Norman Greenbaum, Tom Lehrer, Tiny Tim, Ry Cooder, Captain Beefheart, the early 1970s recordings by Frank Zappa and The Mothers, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris, Nico's Desertshore, The Fugs, Jethro Tull, Pentangle, T. Rex, The Meters, John Cale, Gordon Lightfoot, Michael Franks, Richard Pryor, Al Jarreau and The Beach Boys.

In the early centuries AD and during the Byzantine era the region was conquered by many intruders: Goths ( 396 ), Huns ( 447 ), Slavs ( 577 ), Bulgarians ( 976-1025 ), Normans ( 1081 ), Catalonians ( 1309 – 1311 ) and from 1204 by the Franks, while for a short period it was part of the Despotate of Epirus.

However, Ned Franks, a Canadian parliamentary expert, maintains that the Prime Minister still has the right to advise the Governor General to dissolve the parliament early and drop the writs for an election.

Pharamond or Faramund ( c. 370-427 ) is a legendary early king of the Franks, first referred to in the anonymous 8th century Carolingian text Liber Historiae Francorum, also known as the Gesta regnum Francorum.

This first Kingdom of Burgundy would be annexed to the territories of the Merovingian Kings of the Franks in the era of Clovis and his sons ( the late 5th and early 6th centuries ); it would be recreated, however, on several occasions when it was necessary to divide the Frankish territories between the sons of a deceased Frankish King.

Two more credible possibilities are that the town was named after Frank Liardet or after Charles Franks, an early settler of Melbourne killed by aborigines.

In the early 1980s, Franks and Lieb demonstrated that the Meyer-Overton correlation can be reproduced using a soluble protein.

In its broader meaning, Marca Hispanica refers to a group of early Iberian lordships or counts created by the Franks, of which Andorra is the sole autonomous survivor.

When Prebble announced his retirement from politics in early 2004, Franks was one of the four candidates who sought to take his place as leader of ACT.

Lynne Franks ( born 16 April 1948 ) founded one of the UK ’ s best-known public relations consultancies in the early 1970s and is currently an advocate, communications strategist, writer and spokeswoman on women ’ s issues, sustainability and consumer lifestyles.

Nominoe's Vow, an illustration to the English translation of Barzaz Breiz, depicting the early Breton leader Nominoe vowing vengeance on the Franks for killing a Breton emissary