Mountain Grill

[Eric Siegerman]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:14:24PM +0000, Jon Jarrett wrote:
>         It's called the Alfred Jewel, and no-one's quite sure what it
> is. You can see it here:
>         http://www.mirror.org/ken.roberts/alfred.jewel.html

Cool!  Thanks for the pointer.  (Clearly I was rather
misremembering things -- both the inscription and the object
itself.  Well, it's been 20 years....  It *was* at the BM though,
as part of a big exhibit on Anglo-Saxon art -- presumably on loan
from the Ashmolean.)

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|-_|/  >   Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.        erics at telepres.com
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The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so
many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to
represent the return of the sun by the coiling of a hippopotamus.
        - Umberto Eco, "Foucault's Pendulum"