Greta Naterberg née ''Persdotter'' (June 10, 1772 in

Nykil Nykil is a locality situated in Linköping Municipality, Östergötland County Östergötland County ( sv, Östergötlands län) is a county or '' län'' in southeastern Sweden. It has land borders with the counties of Kalmar to the southeast, ...

Östergötland Östergötland (; English exonym: East Gothland) is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden (''landskap'' in Swedish) in the south of Sweden. It borders Småland, Västergötland, Närke, Södermanland and the Baltic Sea. In older English li ...

– May 10, 1818 in

Slaka Slaka is a locality situated in Linköping Municipality, Östergötland County Östergötland County ( sv, Östergötlands län) is a county or '' län'' in southeastern Sweden. It has land borders with the counties of Kalmar to the southeast, ...

1818) was a Swedish folk singer. She was born to the soldier Per Callerman and Kerstin Lagesdotter and in 1800 she married the soldier Peter Hansson (who later changed his name to Naterberg). She had an extensive repertoire of songs and

ballad A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French ''chanson balladée'' or ''ballade'', which were originally "dance songs". Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and ...

s, which has been documented by

Leonhard Fredrik Rääf Leonhard Fredrik Rääf (1786 – 1872) also known as Ydredrotten was a Swedish folklorist, local historian and conservative politician from Ydre. During a time Rääf had a literary salon in Tomestorp which was frequented by among others Per Dani ...

References

* http://nordicwomensliterature.net/writer/naterberg-greta * Bengt R. Jonsson: Svensk Balladtradition, bd. 1, 1967 * Bengt R. Jonsson (red.): Sveriges medeltida ballader, 1983

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