page_title: Stolta Stad!
hierarchical_section_title: Stolta Stad!
caption_attribution_description: English: Detail from etching "The Steps on Skeppsbro", Stockholm, by Elias Martin. The central figure boarding the boat is popularly supposed to be Ulla Winblad, the semi-mythical figure of muse and prostitute in many of Carl Michael Bellman's Epistles.
context_page_description: Stolta stad!, is one of the Swedish poet and performer Carl Michael Bellman's best-known and best-loved works, from his 1790 collection, Fredman's Epistles, where it is No. 33. It combines spoken sections and song. It has been described as Swedish literature's most congenial portrait of its capital city.
  The epistle is subtitled "1:o Om Fader Movitz's öfverfart til Djurgården, och 2:o om den dygdiga Susanna.".
context_section_description: Stolta stad! (Proud city!), is one of the Swedish poet and performer Carl Michael Bellman's best-known and best-loved works, from his 1790 collection, Fredman's Epistles, where it is No. 33. It combines spoken sections (Was ist das?, with words in German, Swedish, and French) and song (in Swedish). It has been described as Swedish literature's most congenial portrait of its capital city.
  The epistle is subtitled "1:o Om Fader Movitz's öfverfart til Djurgården, och 2:o om den dygdiga Susanna." (Firstly about father Movitz's crossing to Djurgården, and secondly about the virtuous Susanna).
caption: Detail from etching "The steps on Skeppsbro" depicting people embarking in small boats in Stockholm's harbour by Elias Martin, 1800. Ulla Winblad is at the centre of the lively company.
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