id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7629 Franks Casket - Wikipedia .html text/html 8378 797 74 The Franks Casket (or the Auzon Casket) is a small Anglo-Saxon whale's bone (not "whalebone" in the sense of baleen) chest from the early 8th century, now in the British Museum. Rōmwalus and Rēomwalus, twēgen gebrōðera: fēdde hīe wylf in Rōmeceastre, ēðle unnēah. 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).[18] 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."[19] C., 'The Franks Casket', Anglo-Saxon Aloud (15 February 2008) (readings of the poems on the front and right-hand panels). ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7629.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7629.txt