Thank you so much!!

Damn I am just doing that rn (at an airport)

Naaaah, I think it is the moment to press harder to make it become cool in a way he gets to hate it

Due to its early origins, this text offers us a very rich view of the culture of the early Middle Ages in Sweden, and of the perception of "paganism" aftee the Viking Age there. Definitely one of my favourite texts, it's a bit sad having to stop writing, but other saints' deserve attention too!

To convert. Then Botvid warns everyone to give others what God had given them for free. He is soon after martyred by a Slavic man whom he had freed, and who had promised to go and Christianise his own region.

He worked but one miracle during his earthly life: after being refused permission to fish on another (non-Christian) man's lake, the fish followed him to his own, where everyone was able to fill their ships. The guy who refused worked all night to no avail, until he went to Botvid and promised...

His "Vita" informs us that he was a young merchant and "still a pagan" who on a business trip to England, was received by a priest. He was so impressed by the priest's good customs that he asked to be baptised. He then returned to Sweden and started his own missionary efforts!

I will be posting interesting stuff I find during my final writing-up period ❤️