First, listen to the story and then click on the AR symbol in the image above.

This will bring up the Husaby comb found here in Husaby just outside the churchyard wall in the late 1960s. The comb is gilded bronze and consists of two opposing dragons. It hangs on a partially gilded ring.

The story in text:

These stairs lead down to St Sigfrid’s well, which has long been identified as the well where King Olof Skötkonung had himself baptised in the year 1000. Sigfrid was an English missionary and Bishop from York in England. The place has been worshipped for 1000 years and over the years, several Royal personages have left their mark at the well.

Now walk down the stairs. While doing that you will hear a quote from the 13th century Västgöta Law.

Olawer Skötkonung war fyrsti konunger sum cristin war i Sweriki, han var döpter i kyaeldo there wid huseby ligger, oc heter byrgittae af Sigfrid biscupp och han skötte genast allan byyn til staf och stols.

Olof Skötkonung was the first king who was Christian in Sweden. He was baptised in the well that lies at Husaby which is called Birgitta’s, by Bishop Sigfrid and he presented immediately the whole village to the diocese.

Perhaps it was exactly here the baptism took place one day more than 1000 years ago. How did the baptism take place? We know from other accounts that his whole body was wetted. Probably more or less naked, the king had the clear spring water poured over his entire body. Perhaps he even climbed down into the spring itself.

The place around the well has been prepared more recently, but ever since the Middle Ages, people have come here to drink of the well water which was considered to have miraculous powers. As recently as the 1940s, there was a gourd here that enabled drinking the well water. Today the spring recharges water at a lower rate and one should therefore avoid drinking the well water. Hopefully this does not mean that the time of miracles has passed in Husaby