Lars Wivallius

Lars Wivallius, born Lars Svensson in 1605 at Vivalla, near Örebro, the son of a bailiff, studied at Örebro and then at Uppsala and wandered through the Europe of the Thirty Years' War. Passing himself off as a baron, Erik Gyllenstierna, he married a noblewoman, Gertrud Grip, in Scania; exposed, he fled, was recaptured and, after a long trial, was sent to the fortress of Kajaneborg, in Finland, from which he was released in 1641. He was afterwards a lawyer in Stockholm and died there on 6 April 1669.

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• PoetryKlagevisa över denna torra och kalla vårLars Wivallius · 1642not translated into EnglishLiterature