Cape Birgitta stretches out into Lake Boren from present-day Ulvåsa. Here lie the remains of the castle where St. Brigit (Birgitta Birgersdotter Gudmarsson, 1303 - 1373) lived together with her husband, Prince Ulf Gudmarsson of Nierck. She gave birth to eight children. The oldest daughter, Catherine, became the first abbess in the Bridgettine Order of the monastery of Vadstena, the Birgittiner Kloster. See also: Vadstena l.

Source: County Administrative Board in Östergötland, Cultural Environment Office
Photo: Jan Norrman, the Swedish Central Board of Antiquities, 1991

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