"Asta was a widow who lived on a farm in the parish of Ödsmål in the diocese of Oslo. At the time of All-Saint´s Day, she was walking on a bridge. There was a strong current in the water. On her shoulders, Asta carried her daughter, three-year-old Estrid. The mother tripped, and by accident her girl fell into the water. The little girl was carried away by the strong current, to-wards a mill wheel nearby. The mother cried bitterly and said: "Dear Birgitta, give me my girl back alive, and I will take her to your convent." Asta ran round the bank, and eventually found her daughter stuck between two stones in the water, face down, with her feet bobbing up and down. The girl was stuck for three hours in this way. Then a strong man, touched by the tears of the widow, and at great risk to himself, pulled Estrid out of the stream. Almost all bones in the girl ´s body were broken and she appeared to be dead. Yet her poor mother did not cease praying until the girl got up, alive and well. On the day of St. Peter, this woman told this tale, in front of these honourable and reliable men: Herr Lars, priest in Linköping, Herr Peter Porse, knight from Nobynäs in the parish of Lommaryd and Torer Bassa, from Tobo farm in the parish of Vimmerby as well as many others."
A bleak autumn day in Bohuslän in the 1370´s.