This article focuses on miracle narratives associated with saints originating in the Nordic region, written from the 12th to the 15th century, where a rich collection of images of children present around and inside of churches and at shrines can be found. Many of the tales portray children in devotional activities, giving an indication of how children moved and acted in these spaces. The events described often transpire during prayers and services, and show how children were seen and heard in spaces where liturgical activity shaped the rhythms of the day and the year. By examining how children are presented, as present and participating in these spaces, and by noting the bits of sensory information given in the narratives, this article adds to our mental image of the religious practices as well as sensory experiences of medieval children. Keywords: Medieval children, miracles, Nordic saints, hagiography, sensory experience.  On cover:Monks singing the Office and decorated initial A[sperges me.]. Gradual Olivetan Master (Use of the Olivetan Benedictines), illuminated manuscript on parchment ca. 1430-1439. Italy, Monastero di Santa Maria di Baggio near Milan, Ca 1400-1775.Beinecke Ms1184: The olivetan Gradual. Gradual. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Drawing upon medieval Nordic hagiographic sources, this article seeks to investigate traces of some of the more elusive medieval selves, those of medieval children. The question asked is what insights medieval Nordic saints' lives and miracle collections can offer into medieval children's agency and conceptions of self. We have to consider that these narratives are shaped by their authors, based on their recollected childhoods and encounters with children. Still, the analysis of the Nordic hagiographic corpus provides access to conceptions held about children by members of medieval Nordic societies; to the observed actions of medieval children and traces of their lived experiences; as well as to remembered childhood selves and echoes of children's voices and agency.