This legend appears on the title page of The Circle of Ceridwen. It means 'Octavia wrote me' in Old English, with 'me' being the book itself. The Anglo-Saxons (and Danes, who lacked any alphabet save runes) gave voice to their everyday objects, allowing them to speak for themselves. Jewellery, mirrors, combs, and especially weapons often bore the names both of maker and owner 

The beautiful and important Ælfred jewell, thought to be a pointer commissioned by Ælfred the Great and sent as a gift for use in reading, is inscribed 

 An Anglo-Saxon ring made for and by two now forgotten, still proclaims 

This particular inscription is written in a mixture of Old English and runes - a not unusual combination. 

Swords, the supreme weapon of the elite warrior, were not only marked but also named. Sword names were sometimes inscribed upon the hilt or the blade itself. (Some warriors would keep his sword name secret, for magical reasons.) One Anglo-Saxon sword is marked in runes and named 

We have many sword names from the Vikings, all equally evocative: