"Sät vppa thik mins sons pino braz": Memory and Action in "Heliga Birgittas uppenbarelser"

Rather, "her role was essentially as a conduit of moral guidance to otiier people and actively to participate in their salvation" (Morris 66, see also Sahlin 47-54). [...] although she is called "the Bride" and addressed by die Virgin Mary as "daughter" throughout the Revelaciones and even riiough she is "called to bear spiritual children for her Lord," the relationship between Birgitta and her heavenly spouse might be more accurately characterized as diat of an old married couple than the erotically charged unions found in the writings of many other visionaries or, for that matter, the lives of many virgin martyrs (see Revelaciones I: 20; Sahlin 52).