The song is in time. The setting for the song is the time when Noah from the Old Testament had come to rest on the mountains of Ararat, and as mentioned in the Book of Genesis 9:20-21, Noah established a vineyard and got drunk from drinking the wine. The rest of the story departs from the biblical account. Along with Fredman's Songs 36-43, such Joakim uti Babylon and Ahasverus var så mäktig, Gubben Noak is one of the biblical travesties that made Bellman popular during the 1760s.