Book Title: Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind
Author(s): David Diringer
Publisher: Hutchinsons Scientific and Technical Publications

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510
LLANINE NA
THE ALPHABET
N
AIMVANNLRAZAVAZASVIZZ
Fig. 230 3. The scramasax or sword-knite, found in the Thames in 1857, and now in the British
Museum: it probably belongs to about A.D. 8oo. 2, One side of the "Franks Casket," attributed to about A.D. 650 or A.D. 700; the runes have been translated : "The fish-flood (seal lifted the whale's bones on to the mainland:
the ocean became turbid where he swam wround on the shingle.

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