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Title in English: Visual Manifestations of the Pious King Edward and the Few Women on the Bayeux Tapestry. – This article suggests that the appearances of Edward the Confessor on the Bayeux Tapes­try underline Duke William’s entitlement to the English throne and the weakness of Harold God­win­son’s claims. It is argued that King Edward might be depicted six times rather than five. A medi­aeval king had two bodies, one natural and the other with divine right to rule by God’s grace. In the first five re­presentations of Edward we witness the gradual decay and peaceful death of his natural body in sharp contrast to Harold Godwinson’s violent death later on the battlefield, and in the sixth, Duke William sits half hidden by a man closely resembling Edward. This might be Edward’s spiritual poli­tical body sustaining William’s divine right to the English throne. – The gender balance for indi­viduals depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry is 99 % men and 1 % women. Of the total of six women the three in the main register are high status persons who appear near important buildings, depicted as mis­tress (probably), wife or mother. Three other women appear in erotic scenes in the margins, but their lack of clothes and attributes makes it difficult to determine their identity.

In this study, 110 Swedish upper secondary students use a historical database designed for research. We analyze how they perceive the use of this digital tool in teaching and if they are able to use historical thinking and historical empathy in their historical writing and presentations. Using case-study methodology including questionnaires, observations, interviews and text analysis we find this to be a complex task for students. Our results highlight technological problems and problems in contextualizing historical evidence. However, students show interest in using primary sources and ability to use historical thinking and historical empathy, especially older students in more advanced courses when they have time to reflect upon the historical material. Media Places

One of the most famous finds from the earliest historical period of the cityof Ribe (southern Jutland, Denmark) is the fragment of a human skull, with adrilled hole, that has a relatively long runic inscription incised on one surface.Scholars have discussed the reading, interpretation and dating of the runesever since the piece was excavated in 1973. In the present article, the findcircumstances and other archaeological background information is presented;they permit the time of loss or deposition of the runic object to be narroweddown with great probability to the years A.D. 725–50.

This article discusses an embroided skull reliquary, kept in the Diocesan Museum of the Linköping Cathedral in Sweden. It is one of four still extant similar reliquaries from Vadstena Abbey. The reliquary has previously been examined by Agnes Branting & Andreas Lindblom (Medeltida vävnader och broderier i Sverige 1928) and later discussed by Axel L. Romdahl in Fornvännen (1929) and by Carl R. af Ugglas (1935). In 2001, Inger Estham described it in a publication on textile objects in the Linköping Cathedral and suggested that it was made for the feast of the translation of Bishop Nils Hermansson in 1515. A renewed analysis of the reliquary, which takes the embroidery techniques, the loss of ornaments and the iconography into consideration, supports the assumed provenance from Vadstena Abbey. The hitherto unnoticed decoration on the lid, shaped as a typical Birgittine nun’s crown, suggests that the relics belonged to someone in the Birgittine context. Based on this observation, together with an iconographical and stilistic analysis, this article argues for a rejection of the connection between the reliquary and the translation of the Bishop Nils Hermansson. It is further suggested that the dating of the reliquary must be adjusted to a time not later than the translation feast of Katarina of Vadstena in 1489, and that it might even have originally been made to encase her skull. Birgittinska broderier (BWS)