Väversunda

6km/4mi from Alvastra, off the road to the right, is Väversunda, which has a 12th century Romanesque church with a triumphal cross (replica: the original is in the National Museum in Stockholm). To the east lies Lake Tåkern, the haunt of large numbers of birds, which features in Selma Lagerlöf's "Wonderful Adventures of Nils" and in Bengt Berg's animal stories.