From 1828 till his death he was parish priest of
Enköping. He is mainly known as a collaborator with the learned historian,
Erik Gustaf Geijer, in the great collection of Swedish folk-songs,
Svenska folk-visor från forntiden, 3 vols (Stockholm, 1814–1817). He also published translations of the
Poetic Edda and
Hervarar saga, and a history of Sweden to
Charles XII (of which a German translation was published in 1842), as well as original poems. ==References==