The Mythic Ulla
Fredman's Epistle 71, "the apogee, perhaps, of all that is typically bellmansk" evokes the Swedish countryside at Djurgården in summertime, as Bellman imagines riding out of town and finding Ulla at her window. The song is called a Pastorale, and titled "To Ulla at her window, Fisherman's Cottage, lunchtime, one summer's day". It begins
- "Ulla, min Ulla, säj, får jag dig bjuda
- rödaste smultron i mjölk och vin,..."
- Ulla, my Ulla, say may I offer you
- reddest strawberries in milk and wine...
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