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English: The left panel of the Franks casket.

The left panel depicts the mythological twin founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus, being suckled by a wolf lying on her back at the bottom of the scene. The same wolf, or another, stands above, and there are two men with spears approaching from each side. The inscription reads:

Romwalus and Reumwalus, twœgen gibroþær,
afœddæ hiæ wylif in Romæcæstri,
oþlæ unneg.
Romulus and Remus, two brothers,
a she-wolf nourished them in Rome,
far from their native land.[1]
Carol Neuman de Vegvar (1999) observes that other depictions of Romulus and Remus are found in East Anglian art and coinage (for example the very early Undley bracteate).[2] She suggests that because of the similarity of the story of Romulus and Remus to that of Hengist and Horsa, the brothers who were said to have founded England, "the legend of a pair of outcast or traveller brothers who led a people and contributed to the formation of a kingdom was probably not unfamiliar in the 8th-century Anglo-Saxon milieu of the Franks Casket and could stand as a reference to destined rulership."[3]
Date 22 June 2008
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  1. ↑ Page (1999, p. 175).
  2. ↑ Another Anglo-Saxon bone plaque, existing only in a fragment at the Castle Museum, Norwich, which was found at Larling, Norfolk, also shows Romulus and Remus being suckled, with other animal ornament. (Wilson 1984, p. 86).
  3. ↑ Neuman de Vegvar (1999, pp. 265–6)

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