Riddarfjärden
Sign in to saveRiddarfjärden (, "The Knight Firth") is the easternmost bay of Lake Mälaren in central Stockholm. Stockholm was founded in 1252 on an island in the stream where Lake Mälaren (from the west) drains into the Baltic Sea (to the east); today the island is called Stadsholmen and constitutes Stockholm's Old Town.
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Riddarfjärden (, "The Knight Firth") is the easternmost bay of Lake Mälaren in central Stockholm. Stockholm was founded in 1252 on an island in the stream where Lake Mälaren (from the west) drains into the Baltic Sea (to the east); today the island is called Stadsholmen and constitutes Stockholm's Old Town.
Sweden's national bard, Carl Michael Bellman, was born in the Södermalm district of Stockholm, near the Riddarfjärden. Several of his ''Fredman's Epistles are set on Lake Mälaren, such as No. 48, the pastoral Solen glimmar blank och trind'' (The sun gleams smooth and round).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Riddarfjärden” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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