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4 unusual facts about Liten Agda and Olof Tyste


Liten Agda and Olof Tyste

Somehow, Olof and Agda had managed to meet secretly during her time in the convent, and one night Agda climbed down the wall of the convent to the beach of Vättern, where Olof waited with a boat.

According to the legend, Agda was the daughter of a wealthy merchant, Michel (or Mickel), in the city of Vadstena.

It bears similarities to the fate of Ingeborg Jönsdotter (d. 1524), a merchant's daughter from Vadstena who was forced to enter the same convent in 1495 after a love affair with a young noble.

The scandal of the convent abduction was reported to bishop Hans Brask in Linköping, who issued a ban on the couple and declared them outlaws.



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