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DETACHED NOTE ON ST. BIRGITTA. 141
to govern more for himself, but he was conquered and
treated with ignominy by the Danish princess, Margaret,
widow of Haco, in 1389, and thus the once brilliant
Folkunga dynasty came to an inglorious end.
DETACHED NOTE. ON THE AUTHORITIES FOR THE LIFE AND
CHARACTER OF ST. BIRGITTA AND HER LITERARY RELATIONS.
The earliest Life is that by her two later companions, Magister
Peter and Peter the Prior, written in 1373 : this is the most
important source next to the revelations themselves. It may
be found in Scr. rer. Suec., III., 2, pp. 185-206. The revela
tions were first printed at Liibeck in 1492. MSS. exist in
various libraries even in England, as at Balliol, Merton and
Magdalen Colleges in Oxford, and Lincoln Cathedral, but none
of these are complete. The best English MS. is, I believe, in
the British Museum, Harleianus 612, which belonged to Syon.
This also contains the partly unpublished Processus Canoni-
zationis, which is also found in MSS. of the Royal Library at
Stockholm, and of the Vatican. Part of it is published in
S. R. S., III., 2, 218-40. There is an interesting copy of
Koberger s edition, Nuremberg, September, 1521, in Lambeth
Palace Library. It belonged to the monastery of Syon, and
was given at the petition of David Curson,
"
a brother pro
fessed ... by the consent of the reverent father and all hys
brethern," to Mr. John Doo, of the College of Fotheringham,
on condition that he should pray for the company of the said
monastery, and leave it to the common use of the college afore
said. I have myself used Durantus full and convenient edi
tion, printed with the revelations of SS. Hildegard and
Elizabeth, Cologne, 1628.
Of modern books I have used Schiick III. Sv. lit. hist., H.
Lundstrom Birgitta in P.R.E. 3
,
Vol. 3 ;
Dr. F. Hammerich (of
Copenhagen) St. Birgitta, German translation by A. Michelsen,
Gotha, 1872 ;
G. Binder Die heilige Birgitta von Schiveden,
Miinchen, 1891 ; Lydia Wahlstrom Den heliga Birgitta, Stock
holm, 1905; Hojer : Vadstena Klosters . . . .
Historia, Upsala,
1905, and MS. notes generously supplied by Mr. Knut B. West-
man, of Upsala, who is writing a monograph on the subject.
I believe that the latest and fullest biography is one by Hans
Hildebrand, published about six years ago in Svenska Akade-
miens Handlingar, but I have not had access to it.
Geijer s History, and is familiar to us from the history of Scot
land, where the Stewards or Stuarts became kings.
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