Gunno Dahlstierna

Gunno Dahlstierna whose original surname was Eurelius, was born in the parish of Ör (now part of Mellerud Municipality) in Dalsland, where his father was rector.

He wandered over the whole of the coast of the Baltic: Livonia, Rügen and Swedish Pomerania, preparing maps which still exist in the office of public land-surveying in Stockholm.

[2] Dahlstierna's patriotism was touching in its pathos and intensity, and during his long periods of professional exile he comforted himself by the composition of songs to his beloved Sweden.

His most popular work is his Götha kämpavisa om Konungen och Herr Peder ("The Goth's Battle Song, concerning the King and Master Peter"; Stockholm, 1701).

[2] The works of Dahlstierna have been collected by P. Hanselli, in the Samlade Vitterhetsarbeten af svenska Författare från Stjernhjelm till Dalin (Uppsala, 1856, &c.).