Summary A crowned, wooden bust of a female saint in the medieval St Mary’s church in Sigtuna is the only remaining example of medieval bust reliquaries in the Nordic churches. Her hollow head has housed relics, which no longer exist. Without attributes, the bust has been tentatively identified as various saints and even a heroine of local folklore. No written documents have been found that could shed light on her background. Only the two last centuries of her existence have been documented, illustrating recent shifts in the bust’s location, physical condition and perceived identity. The majority of medieval reliquary busts in Europe represented St Ursula and her companions, the Eleven Thousand Virgins; hundreds of examples of these busts are still preserved in Central and Southern Europe. The holy virgins of Cologne were popular in the North, too: they were represented in reliquary busts, but also in other reliquaries, as well as in wall paintings and altarpieces. Although the identity of the Sigtuna bust remains uncertain, it is viewed here in the context of the reliquaries of the Eleven Thousand Virgins in the Nordic churches.

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西格蒂纳圣物胸围–当地女英雄和科隆圣母？

小结在锡格蒂纳（Sigtuna）的中世纪圣玛丽教堂里，一个女性圣人的加冕木制半身像是北欧教堂中唯一剩下的中世纪半身像。她的空心脑袋里藏着不再存在的文物。由于没有属性，该胸像已被初步确定为各种圣徒，甚至是当地民间传说的女主人公。没有书面文件可以阐明她的背景。她的生存只有最后两个世纪，这说明了胸围的位置，身体状况和所感知到的身份的最新变化。在欧洲，大多数中世纪的圣物收藏半身像代表圣厄休拉和她的同伴“十一千处女”。在中欧和南欧，仍保存着数百个此类胸像的例子。科隆的圣女在北部也很受欢迎：它们不仅出现在圣物半身像中，而且还出现在其他圣物中以及壁画和祭坛画中。尽管Sigtuna胸像的身份仍不确定，但在此将其视为北欧教堂中一万一千名处女的遗物。