Sven-Bertil Taube
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Sven-Bertil Gunnar Evert Taube was a Swedish singer and actor. Internationally, he was perhaps better known for his acting career. Taube played Henrik Vanger in the film The Girl with the Dragon Tatto
Taube at the Stockholm Folk Festival in 2014
Så lunka vi så småningom
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Så lunka vi så småningom is a song from the Swedish poet and performer Carl Michael Bellman's 1791 collection, Fredman's Songs, where it is No. 21. The song, written a few months after the death of hi
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The song's theme has been compared to the scene in Hamlet with Yorick's skull. Painting Young Man with a Skull by Frans Hals, c. 1626
The melody is from Johann Gottlieb Naumann's 1786 opera Gustaf Wasa, at the critical moment where Gustaf Wasa (right) agonises over whether to continue to fight the Danes.