Skogekär Bergbo

Skogekär Bergbo ( pronunciation : [ ˌskuːgəɕæːɹ ˈbæɹːʝbuː ]) is the pseudonym of a Swedish poet of the 17th century. It roughly means "the forest-loving mountain dweller". Who hides behind this pseudonym is still hotly controversial - especially in Swedish literary circles. The noble jurist Gustaf Rosenhane (1619–1684) has been mentioned since the late 17th century, but his older brother Schering Rosenhane (1609–1663) and the lawyer Johan Sylvius (1620–1690), who also comes from the nobility, also come in Consideration.

Along with Georg Stiernhielm, Skogekär Bergbo is considered the first really important Swedish poet. In his first work Thet Swenska språketz Klagemål ("The Lament of the Swedish Language", 1658) he called for the Swedish language to be purged of foreign influences. His most important work is Wenerid ("Wenerid", 1680), a collection of a hundred sonnets in which, in Petrarch's successor, the unfulfilled and unfulfillable love of the lyrical self for a socially superior lady named Wenerid is portrayed. Skogekär Bergbo used an elaborate, classical language. He was one of the first to try to poetry in Swedish in a continental European way. The best-known sonnet from Wenerid is DV lilla Hålma min (“You my little island”), a homage to the city of Stockholm . According to the first printed edition from 1680, Wenerid was written more than 30 years ago, i.e. before 1650. Skogekär Bergbo also published the poetry collection Fyratijo små Wijsor ("Forty Little Songs", 1682.)

literature

• Lars Burman: Introduction to: Skogekär Bergbo, Wenerid, with introduction and commentary by Lars Burman . Stockholm 1993