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This replica panel (the original is the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy) refers to a lost Germanic legend about a figure called Hos who, the runic inscriptions relates, is made to suffer by Ertae. Its mysterious imagery includes cloaked figures (right), a horse bending over a burial mound containing human remains (centre), and a warrior confronting a strange, human-like creature with wings and horse's head (left). While this imagery and its meaning are a mystery today, the figures would have been familiar to the Anglo-Saxons. The Casket was donated by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks. Early 700s. From Auzon, Haute-Loire, Auvergne, modern-day France. (The British Museum, London).
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Amin, O. S. M. (2016, October 11). Germanic Legend Panel from the Franks Casket. World History Encyclopedia. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/5796/germanic-legend-panel-from-the-franks-casket/
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Amin, Osama Shukir Muhammed. "Germanic Legend Panel from the Franks Casket." World History Encyclopedia, October 11, 2016. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/5796/germanic-legend-panel-from-the-franks-casket/.
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Amin, Osama Shukir Muhammed. "Germanic Legend Panel from the Franks Casket." World History Encyclopedia, 11 Oct 2016, https://www.worldhistory.org/image/5796/germanic-legend-panel-from-the-franks-casket/.
