Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 262
e Bewcastle and Ruthwell crosses are of the same age, and the former is dated by themention of Alchfrith. The Ruthwell runes are accepted by English scholars as late seventhcentury, or very little afterwards. Runes would have been unintelligible in the twelfth cen-tury. Rivoira also doubts the… … Fig. 146. Book-cover of the ninth-tenth century, carved in the Frankish dominions afteran East-Christian model. (Victoria and Albert Museum.) P. 233. which are probably of Syrian origin, and their tall slender proportions arecharacteristic of the North.1 The probability of inspiration from ivory…
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