There he received a letter from the Swedish Council of the Realm, offering to negotiate peace as long as he agreed to return Kalmar and his other conquests in Sweden.

Additionally, he sent a raiding party consisting of the Ribe Banner under Lieutenant Knud Gyldenstjerne into south-west Småland.

John III had built it in order to secure Nya Lödöse, and it had been upgraded again in the early 1600s, right before the start of the Kalmar War around 1607.

Even though a sudden thaw made the streams hard to cross, Christian immediately ordered his troops to attempt a storming of the castle.

However, she did not satisfy herself with only this, she had, together with the wives of the Swedish knights, make large amounts of boiling lye, which the women poured over the attacking Danes, so that they:[6][3] lay in the archway and around the gate like scalded pigs.However, some thirty Danes, who were captured, managed to avoid the cannonfire, rushing into the "borgstuga" where women were sitting with their children.

[7] During the fighting, Mårten Krakow, the commander of Gullberg, accidentally fell off his horse, breaking his left leg and an arm, putting him out of combat.

However, his wife, Emerentia Pauli (Krakow), assumed command of the Swedish defense, bringing the women living in the castle into battle.

However, Emerentia did not lose courage, and she had the door to the magazine broken open, and personally sought out Sven in his hiding place and scolded him.