+VLFBERHT: name? Brand? Invocation?

[Reventlov]

Originally Posted by Lee

Reventlov - most interesting, illuminating and compelling arguments that make good sense to me. Thank you!

Entirely peripheral to this discussion, I especially enjoyed the small beast on the ring at the start of the name as it so reminds me of similar figures on Scottish annular brooches so many centuries later. I wonder what these were intended to represent.

Thanks Lee!

I see on the ring a rabbit, and on the brooch... a squirrel? Not so impressive as Jim's wolves!