The writting on the outside is a version of a script called theban - it seems to say the samething as the english on the inner part, but some of the symbols are not standard (though what is standard for that script?), and the softness of the background makes it hard to be sure ... I'm not big into theban so I had to look it up in a book to be sure, and I don't know any of the alternate symbols. Now if it had been runes it would have been easier - lol.