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Wood, antler, birch bark, leather and wax, carved, incised, stained and polished.
addle, similar in form to A407, having a high bow or pommel terminating in a scroll, the cantle formed by two upward-curving semi-circular plates. There are traces of three pairs of holes and two single holes on each side for the attachment of the pad, breast-strap, and crupper. Constructed of wood faced with plaques of polished and incised antler. The red, green and black colouring is inlaid hard wax. It is hatched and carved in low-relief with the figures of a woman and a man in the civilian dress of the mid- fifteenth century (below the cantel the figures are repeated with varied composition; the male and female figures being transposed); they hold the ends of scrolls which bear the following inscription (the free translation is that given by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick):
Left Side
The Woman speaks:
ich · pin · bie 'I am here, I know not how',
ich · wans · nit · wie
ich · var · von · v. 'I go hence, I know not where',
ich · wans · nit · wan
nu · wol · auf
mit · willen · unvergessen 'Well a day! willingly thou art never forgotten'
The Man speaks:
ich · frei · mich . all 'I rejoice to be ever thine'.
zeit · dein
(Obviously the answer to the question below)
Right Side - The Man speaks:
ich · var · ich · bar 'I go, I stop, the longer I stop'
ye · lenger · ich · bar
me · greffer · nar 'The more mad I become',
dein · ewichleich 'Thine for ever',
land · ierigen · varn 'The world o'er your betrothed',
The Woman speaks:
me · den · krg (?) · ent 'But if the war should end?'