Here are a few more (I have hundreds of examples in my library) and maybe, if you settle into your own mind a bit you can smell the bread as I did. Oh, and the stew is good too.
It is possible that the Norse casket tradition evolved after native craftsmen came into contact with reliquaries captured by Viking raiders and brought back to Scandinavia.
![]() Ranvaik’s Casket |
House-shaped casket of Celtic manufacture, ca. 8th cent. A.D. This casket was most likely a reliquary seized from a Celtic church or monastery and taken back to Norway as loot. Runes incised on the bottom read, "Ranvaik owns this casket". Construction is thin plates of a copper alloy over a box made of very thin yew-wood. Left: Front View. Right: Rear view showing hinges. |
![]() Gandersheim Reliquary
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Photo of 8th century carved walrus ivory casket with bronze fittings from the Gandersheim Monastary. Thought to have been manufactured in southern England. Size 5" x 2-5/8" x 5" (12.7cm x 6.67cm x 12.7cm). From the collection of the Herzon-Anton-Ulrich-Museum. |
Three caskets survived to the modern era, although one, the Cammin Casket, was destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden:
The Bamberg Casket a 10.4" x 5.1" square oak box covered with thin, carved sheets of walrus ivory in the Mammen style of ornament. The seams are covered with gilt-bronze bands engraved with a formal tendril pattern, which are nailed to the wooden base. "Barbaric, vulgar and ostentatious... a satisfying object which a queen would be proud to own".
![]() Bamberg Casket |
The Cammin Casket a 24.8"l x 13"w x 10.2"h wood box overlaid with 22 sheets of carved elk-horn in the Mammen style of ornament. The seams are covered with gilt-bronze bands engraved with formal tendril patterns, ribbon interlace and scrolled leaf patterns, which were nailed to the wooden base. This casket may very well have been made by the same workshop as the Bamburg Casket, above.
![]() Cammin Casket |
The Franks Casket a small box of carved whalebone produced by Viking craftsmen in Northumbria at the end of the 7th cent. A.D. The lid and sides have runic inscriptions, and the motifs carved with scenes both from Norse and Classical mythology and Christianity, including the tale of Weland Smith, the Adoration of the Magi, a sacrifice to Óðinn, the discovery of Romulus and Remus with the wolves and the image of a Viking archer named Egill (whose story, unfortunately is now lost).
![]() ![]() Franks Casket |
This carved whalebone casket was made by Viking craftsmen working in Northumbria ca. the late 7th cent. A.D. |
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