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Cathedral Priory of Odense in the Middle Ages 199
sceptre, and in his left an object described by H. Petersen
as a monstrance.',:1 It is far more likely that the king
is here shown with the relic with which he was always
associated, and which seems also to be shown on a late
medieval carving of Knud from Nsestved.:"
There may be further confusions in Matthew Paris's
story. In the late eleventh century Ywar, the sacrist of
Peterborough was in Denmark and probably at Odense,
collecting the relics belonging to his abbey which had
been taken away in 1070.55 The Egwin of the story
sounds like a confusion with St Egwin of Evesham, who
was venerated at Odense. ,.