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Ulla Winblad was a semi-fictional character in many of Carl Michael Bellman's works. She is at once an idealised rococo goddess and a tavern prostitute, and a key figure in Bellman's songs. The character was partly inspired by Maria Kristina Kiellström (1744-1798). == A dual character == Paul Britten Austin summarizes Ulla Winblad's dual nature: : "''Ulla'' is at once a nymph of the taverns and a goddess of a rococo universe of graceful and hot imaginings".〔Britten Austin, 1967.〕 ''Fredman's Epistles'' are distinctive in combining realism - drink, poverty, gambling, prostitution, old age - with elegant mythological rococo flourishes, enabling Bellman to achieve both comic and elegiac effects. Britten Austin cites Afzelius:〔 The sluttiest of the barmaids "on the rosiest mythological clouds" is of course Ulla Winblad. In Epistle 36, (''Concerning Ulla Winblad's flight''), Bellman "at his most rococo" describes Ulla asleep in a tavern bedroom - while the owner peeps through the keyhole and three excited drunks wait outside. As she wakes, three rococo cupids assist her with make-up, perfume, and her hair. Then she runs into the bar, revives herself with a glass of brandy, and leaves with the blindest of the waiting fellows, "leaving the inmates of the tavern, shaken, to contemplate ''Ulla's'' glass where she has left it, empty and broken on the bar."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ulla Winblad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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