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St. Erik's skull and his twelfth-century burial crown (ordinarily both reside in his later sixteenth-century reliquary in the cathedral of Uppsala):
http://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1375459/viking-skull.jpg
More on the crown:
http://www.himlenarhar.se/foremal/the-crown-of-saint-erik/?lang=en
Some medieval images of Erik of Sweden:
a) E. in a fourteenth(?)-century sculpture in the late medieval parish church of Gamla Uppsala:
http://tinyurl.com/qjmfly
http://tinyurl.com/r7t2pe
b) E. in two fifteenth(?)-century mural paintings in Uppsala's cathedral:
http://www.greydragon.org/trips/stockholm/uppsala-cathedral100.jpg
http://www.greydragon.org/trips/stockholm/uppsala-cathedral104.jpg
c) E. in a sculpture in Stockholms Medeltidsmuseum (Museum of Medieval Stockholm):
http://www.histdoc.net/pic/erik.jpg
d) E. (at right in the first view) in a vault painting of ca. 1450 in Överselö kyrka in Strängnäs township (Södermanlands län):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Overselo_L1valv4a.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Erik_Overselo.gif
e) E. in a fifteenth-century mural painting in Brunnby kyrka in Höganäs (Skåne län):
https://www.heiligenlexikon.de/Fotos/Erik_von_Schweden2.jpg
f) E. in a statue of ca. 1500 in Hälsinglands Museum, Hudiksvall (Gävleborgs län):
http://www.himlenarhar.se/content/uploads/2014/04/erikskulptur1-halsingland-400.jpg
Best,
John Dillon
On 05/20/15, Matt Heintzelman wrote:
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