Carolinian death march

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Route of Armfeldt's troops 1718–19. The dates on the card are Julian .

As the death march of the Karoliner ( Swedish Karolinernas dödsmarsch ) is the loss-making retreat of Swedish troops after the unsuccessful invasion of Norway by Charles XII. designated.

North of the main army of Charles XII. operated an army under Carl Gustaf Armfelt in 1718 to divide Norway by taking Trondheim . Armfeldt's campaign ran into logistical difficulties. After the king fell during the siege of Frederikshald , Armfeld broke on January 1st July. / January 12th 1719 greg. the siege of Trondheim and withdrew to Sweden . While crossing the Öyfjell , 3,700 of his 5,800 men froze to death in a heavy snow storm.

The dramatic days of the Armfelt Army in the winter of 1719 were turned into the critical musical Det brinner en Eld ("A fire is burning"). Every other year it is performed in Røros in a historical setting in the "original languages" Swedish, Norwegian and Danish .

The Swiss writer Josef Viktor Widmann dedicated his poem Totenvolk to the event .

literature

  • Unlike Hansson: Karolinernas dödsmarsch. 3. Edition. Jämtlands läns museum, Östersund 1995, ISBN 91-7948-110-8 .
  • Karl-Aage Schwartzkopf : Campfire in front of Trondheim. Thienemann, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-522-12730-7 , fictional story from the perspective of a young page by General Armfeldt.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official website of the musical (as of January 22, 2011)
  2. ↑ Published a. a. in: Am häuslichen Herd , Issue 8 of January 15, 1945, p. 141 ( digitized in the E-Periodica portal of ETH Zurich ; download as PDF; 1.1 MB )

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