Stormor i Dalom

Margareta Hansdotter, also called Säbråzynthia (1594–1657), was a Swedish vicar's wife famous in history by the name Stormor i Dalom (The Great Mother of Dalom).

She was given the name Stormor i Dalom during her own lifetime because of her good heart and charitable nature toward the poor,[1] as well as for her many children.

Stormor i Dalom was born to Johannes Laurentii, vicar of Säbrå parish in Ångermanland, and thereby the cousin of the mathematician Andreas Bureus and the sister of bishop Jacobus Johannis Zebrozynthius.

", a tribute to her favorable reputation of motherly goodness, which was mentioned in the sermon of her funeral.

[2] She is known as the matriarch of a large number of Swedish families: Arborelius, Floderus, Geijer, Holmgren, Key, Munktell, Staaff, Stridsberg, Troilius, von Troil and Trygger.