Editing Oswald von Wolkenstein (section)

==Oswald's right eye==
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[[File:Oswald von Wolkenstein JS.jpg|thumb|A depiction of Oswald, with his closed eye visible]]
All extant portraits of Oswald depict him with a closed right eye. An examination of his skull from a 1973 exhumation revealed that this was due to a congenital defect: his right eye socket was smaller than the left, which meant that his right eyeball was under constant pressure, resulting in [[ptosis (eyelid)|ptosis]], or a withering of the right eyelid muscles. However, [[Franz Daxecker]] concludes that the ptosis was probably caused by an injury sustained in childhood.<ref>[[Franz Daxecker]], ''Die Verletzungen des rechten Auges Oswalds von Wolkenstein'', Ber. Naturwiss.-med. Ver. Innsb., vol 83, pp. 325-330 (1996)</ref> Dieter Kühn's biography of Oswald, which attributes the "loss" of the right eye to an archery mishap when the boy was eight years old, is now generally discredited. A popular theory that the eye was lost during the siege of Greifenstein Castle in 1423 is also implausible, as portraits of Oswald from 1408 already depict him with a drooping eyelid.