 Lars Lönnroth, writing in "Svenska Dagbladet", suggests that the "spring" in the Epistle was in fact not a stream in summer meadows but a fashionable spa, perhaps Djurgårsbrunn on what was in Bellman's time the edge of Stockholm.Henrik Mickos, in the 2011 Bellman lecture, discussed what the "pimpinella" of the first verse might be, concluding that salad burnet ("Sanguisorba minor") was quite likely, given it was known at the time as pimpinella, and was more common in Sweden then than it is now.Mickos dismisses the possibility that it was aniseed ("Pimpinella anisum"), which was used to flavour brännvin but not as the song has it ("red wine and pimpinella") a wine-based punch.