Julia Kristina Nyberg was a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

 and songwriter. Nyberg grew up as the adoptive daughter of a mill owner, named Adlerwald, in the parish of Skultuna

Skultuna

Skultuna is a locality situated in Västerås Municipality, Västmanland County, Sweden with 3,249 inhabitants in 2005.Skultuna is, in fact, Sweden's oldest industry and has an early 17th century brassworks, Skultuna Messingsbruk, and also two runestones....

 in Västmanland County

Västmanland County

Västmanland County is a county or län in central Sweden. It borders to the counties of Södermanland, Örebro, Gävleborg, Dalarna and Uppsala...

. She wrote the vast majority of her works under the pseudonym Euphrosyne.

Nyberg is most famous for her songs written for the Walpurgis Night

Walpurgis Night

Walpurgis Night is a traditional spring festival on 30 April or 1 May in large parts of Central and Northern Europe. It is often celebrated with dancing and with bonfires. It is exactly six months from All Hallows' Eve.-Name:...

 holiday, many of which are still sung and recorded today, including Vårvindar friska and Fruktmånglerskan med tapperhetsmedalj. For the majority of her literary career she belonged to the circle of writers based around the Romantic poet Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom

Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom

Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom was a Swedish romantic poet, and a member of the Swedish Academy....

 and regularly published her poetry in the group's journal: Poetisk kalender. She never aspired to the epic poetry

Epic poetry

An epic is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation. Oral poetry may qualify as an epic, and Albert Lord and Milman Parry have argued that classical epics were fundamentally an oral poetic form...

that characterized many of her contemporaries' works, but instead focussed on writing shorter poems inspired by nature.