Ida Albertina Gawell-Blumenthal (4 November 1869 – 14 May 1953)[1] was a Swedish author, storyteller, and singer, known under the name Delsbostintan.

[4] She toured for many years in the Nordic countries as well as Swedish communities in the US, as a storyteller of humorous Hälsingland stories, often with musical illustrations on the spilåpipa and singing.

[5][6] She moved to Stockholm in 1895 for studies at the Technical School and was married from 1898 to 1921 to the physician Moritz Blumenthal, who died in 1923.

Ida Gawell-Blumenthal received the royal medal Litteris et Artibus in 1929.

[7] In 2003, on the 50th anniversary of her death, a statue of her was erected in the square in Delsbo.