time in Fredman's Epistle number 25, Blåsen nu alla, subtitled Which is an attempt at a pastoral in Bacchanalian taste, written on Ulla Winblad's crossing to Djurgården. It begins with rococo "angels, dolphins, zephyrs and the whole might of Paphos (compare the illustration of Boucher's Birth of Venus) and musical flourishes on the horn ("Corno") and ends with Ulla as "my nymph" and the sentiment "May love come into our lives". Bellman worked up the silk cape incident into the beautiful rococo Epistle 28, where Fredman sees a "goddess", elegantly dressed, with illegally flounced and frilled petticoats. Kiellström married a customs officer, Eric Nordström, in 1772: Bellman found him his job. The couple lived very close to Bellman, and Norström too appears in the Epistles; a "quarrelsome violent man" and a drinker, he died in a police cell. Kiellström was still attractive enough to remarry at the age of 42; her second husband, 11 years younger than her, complained that she was "generally and in printed songs known for passionate living." The mythic Ulla The Ulla Winblad depicted in Fredman's Epistles is at once romanticised and clearly sexual. Epistle 71, in Britten Austin's words "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... See also Österlånggatan Ulla von Höpken References Bibliography Paul Britten Austin. The Life and Songs of Carl Michael Bellman: Genius of the Swedish Rococo. Allhem, Malmö American-Scandinavian Foundation, New York, 1967. Paul Britten Austin. Fredman's Epistles and Songs, (Stockholm: Proprius, 1999). Carl Michael Bellman. Fredmans Epistlar (Epistles of Fredman). 1790. (with facsimiles of sheet music from first editions in 1790, 1791) Hendrik Willem van Loon and Grace Castagnetta. The Last of the Troubadours, (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939). Michael Roberts. Epistles and Songs, (Grahamstown, three volumes, 1977–1981). Charles Wharton Stork. Anthology of Swedish Lyrics from 1750 to 1915'', (New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1917). External links Bellman.net on Ulla Winblad and Maija-Stina Kiellström (In Swedish) Carl Michael Bellman at Swedish Wikisource Female characters in literature Literary characters