A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Ingrida
INGRIDA,
A nun of the convent of St. Brigitta, in Wadstena, Sweden, who lived in 1498, wrote an epistle to her lover, which is considered the most elegant and correct specimen of the Swedish language of that period, and indeed superior to any that appeared for a long time after This composition, full of eloquence and genuine passion, in which the sentiments of love and mystic devotion are intermingled, places Ingrida by the side of the more celebrated Heloise.