Simple Swedish Podcast - #317 - Gustav Vasa

Episode Date: March 2, 2026

Nivå: ~A2-B1 Berättelsen om Sveriges landsfader Gustav Vasa. Kungen som gjorde Sverige självständigt igen och grundade den moderna nationalstaten Sverige.  Lyssna också på dessa avsnitt: #193 - Kalmarunionen #227 - Stormaktstiden Vill du få transkripten, men också en community av andra som lär sig svenska? Bli medlem på Simple Swedish Center för bara 9€ i månaden. Klicka här för en gratis provperiod i 7 dagar.    

Yeah, good moron, or if you're not, good morning, so good day or good quayl, welcome to Simple Swedish podcast. And today, I'm going to talk about a very, very important person in Sweden's history. And if you will have transcript and a community for this podden so can you be a medlem on Simple Swedish Centre for 9 euro in the monadent. I'll leave a link in the description. And I should also tacker some new patrons.

It is Hassan, Kaleb, Tijana, Linda, Tuan, Anna, Jaya Priya, Cindy, Korskavore, Jaime, Roberto, Oliver, Patricio and Sam. Thank you for that you stodger this podden. And, yeah, so we shall talk about Gustav Vasa. Have you heard about Gustav Vasa? You can't you've seen that there's

many names in so name on places and gaitors it usually there usually find a gata that's called Vasa Gatan

in many steder and you can't hear about the shippet Vasa and Vasa Muzer and it There's Kneckybrough, Vasa.

So this name is a quite a kind of name, and it comes from Vasa Eten. An Ete, it is like a family or a dynasty, can you say. So, Vasa Eten, all the personer who are a part of the family or dynasty, or what you I'm going to say. And Gustav Vasa, he was a king in Sweden, on 1500th-talet. He, he, man, man, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's,

landfader, also person who grunded the modern nation, Sweden. And many of that comes

from that he ledde this this befrielsek and he did

he he did many reformer in the very important. And that we'll we talk about today.

I'm also to forklara words that maybe are a little knepegah. So, first and

first and a little historic background. So one thing that is important

is Hansan. So Hansan, it was a handelsford fund in Ustershund. Also, you can say that a, that a a organization, can you can say, of many different states around And it was Serted around

Tuscka and the Hansan was Lybeck And Lybeck Lig back in Norra Tuscland Lings Custen there very near

Denmark And Hansan was a very much a very macted Handelsford So they they bedrev Handel

in Ustershend. So, so the here, the havet that is between Sweden, Finland, Balticum, Denmark. And norah Tuscland, norah, poland.

It is Ustershend. And it was a very very important, yeah, very important geographist omroth, can you say.

And it was Hansan, who had the most the time we're the time we're 3, 300 hundredthal and so

and for to contra Hansans' the market so started you can Kalmar Union

and Kalmarunian it was an union between Sweden, Norway and I have an offsnit

on Kalmarunion 193 so listen to if you will have more historic context but in all the all the fall so Kalmar union

builded and it was under the whole 1400 talet and in on 1500thalet so you then would it

contra Hansans but often was it Danmars which had the Kalmarunionen, and in Sweden, there's there, like, like,

all the other un-sikers on Kalmarunionian. Some think it was good, others think it was more, and so-clart, so, it's this here,

genome, for Kalmarunimmonen it was, It's very long. But this is the background to the history of Gustavasa.

So Gustavasa he felds 14996 also in the end of 1400 talet and then

we have had Calmarunion in about 100 years and and Gustavasa one of them who didn't

gillated Kalmarunion and he began as young to camp to fight against Denmark's in Sweden

and he he he was actually to foongatogatagin of Denmark in a 1818 that he was to

he took to Fongatogatogan he took to Fonga So the Danskana They took him They arrested He said He was he

Hecetted him in Fongenskap They sat him in A Fengelse A cell But he He could be He could

Comea therein And he He flied to Lybec. And Lybec was, as said, the hubutstaden in Hansan.

So, you know, that Gustavasa had some sort of relation to Hansan. But, and

then, then, then began it the importantest things to happen. For,

it was a conflict, it was often conflict in Sweden in the people who were were the commoner union were good, those who didn't didn't give the Kalmarunion and wanted that Sweden would

be self-stendit from Denmark and we had a Danish king that had Christian and this king was extra brutal can you can you. So, Christians'

set to hantyra these conflicts. It was through brutal vold. So, it is a handelse 1520 that's Stockholm's

bloodbad. And a bloodbad is exactly what it it is, that it it is that it bad are in blood, whole simply, it's a thing where many

have been have been abratted, slacted, also so, so, the danca cungian,

Christian, he saw to so that his motstander, also, his fiender, that he, he, he, he, he, he, he'd them. So, that he's, that he's, that man, uh, that man, that man duter someone on a, like, like,

like, like, we have a, like, a law that, that, um, that, um, you do, the here and this, then you can you can be abratted, state can't your life, the state can dutarder you, so, many people believe abratted there in Stockholm, 5,120,

uh, christians, moststander, Christian's fiender, and And who was one of the the personed people? It was Gustavasa's far,

also Gustavasa's papa. So Gustavasa did also his papa was righted of Christian in

Stockholm's bloodbad and in in Sweden so call this Christian for Christian

Tyrann So he was not so upscatted in Sweden. And this is starten on uprorette against the Danish vetted, also the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, it's, yeah, it, it's, So, Gustav, he startar, and a uproar, and a uproar, yeah, it is, you, when you, when you feel people to take to weapon to the power, motensmachten, also,

So, people people, people, okay? So, he started a uproar. And this uproar started in

Dalarna. And Dalarna is a region in Sweden which is a little extra uproarisk. So there are,

many uproar that have started in just Dalai. There's many and there's how Gustav Vasa he was like

he was jaged to Dalai and he was jaged of Danskara so Danskarna they tried to Gustav in Dalana and it there's like a mass of legionder on how he came undan

and and he lucked fly from Danskana and lucked for that, people in Dalarna, they were very pro-Gustav, like they thought

that Gustav was good and the Danskana was not good. So, so that the Dalarna had the Danskana not much stod.

So, so Gustav, he, he, he walked around there and, and, and,

he, people were, to do uproar and this uprored this spread so Gustav went through and he tried

and more and more support to this here uproar it and as there are many legenders on this how he is a gelte and

like he started this uproar at the Duranca makten and they took over more and more and more and more,

and and the city of the city, and it went from a uproar to be a so-called

befrielselsek so, so, they called it for befrielsek it, also they

cried for to be free from the danska the danska the, so to befriya

from from Christian Tyrann. And the the worst was to take Stockholm, so course. But Gustav, he had

support. He had a important support from Lybeck, from Hansan. So Hansan had quite much power,

and it was a very important support that the rebels and the rebels and hansan. After three years of the war, so, winner Gustav and the rebels, the here, this is. And, Sweden, is self-stendit and Kalmar Union is uplust. Denmark and Norge continue to

be in union but, but the Sweden is so self-stendid and 1,523

so you'll you're one Gustav to the country's

king and was the 6th June also the national

day and it It was not Sweden's then, because the Newerner but the

this dateumet is so-clar important and, and it is to ground for that we

have the national-day the 6th Junie. For that Gustav Wasa will then

king in Sweden. He, he called not Gustav Vasa on that time, he's justov-Erickson, but we call him Gustavasa now for the time,

for that he, ah, he is a deal of Vasa-Etton. So, and what it happened, then, now, when Sweden, blea, a self-stendid land? Yeah, it, it, it happened many things. So Gustavasa, he was a very strong, and very bestemned, and he was not afraid to use of violence.

And he centralised the state. And he centralizedized the state. And gave me self a much more power. So, So, was, not so there so there

before. It was so organized. So Gustav Vasa, he centralized organized and organized

and gave the state and himself more power. He modernized also

Sweden's military, for, yeah, it was very a strong military, when when you're a a self-in-in'an.

But a problem was that he had very high sculder. He had sculder to Lybeck, to

Hansan. For that Hansan had helped Sweden very much under befrielsic-cricet, and they had been taken much and loaned, so, so, so, so

soleder. A, is, when you are, you are, shudic, pay you to get back, your scudder. So, Gustav was had to,

to, a mass, mass, cash, so what did he? What he? He did he infuaded Protestantisman. So,

so, Sweden was a Catholic-land. And Catholicisman that the church can have much power, and the churchan has many money. But when it is protestantist,

so is it a little more, I don't, I don't exactly how it Funcustov. And it wasa infunditsen. And it did that he could take mass of pengers from the church. And he could self be churchans over-huvud. Also, he could, self, was, like, the highest person, the biggest person.

the most the most of the church the most of the churches, the same the most of the churched, and he used he for to betal the sculder to Lybec and for to moderniser the military. He hughed also a mass of scatter for to get more money to the state. And so-so-there-that-there-and-so-nought-notes with it here, many people who didn't like to pay more in scat and that you're being taken to a new religion. For that, we are Catholic, we can't quite will continue to be catholicers. And, so, so many people who didn't were so nought.

And it was, it was uproar, but he was brutal and slug near these uproarer, very bestempt. And, yeah, after a time, so, so, so more and more and more, more and more orderning, better economy, and so... And then, so... An another very important reform was that Sweden became a arvrike, also,

that... That cronan go in arv. It means that, that, that king's son erver tronen. Also, kingens son, will automatically next king. He erver tronel, or the crownan, or the crownan, goar in arv, say you. Yeah, so it was a little important reformer and handelselsers. and Gustav Vasa

regerar from until 1,160 and his 1 continues to reger in

in 130 years and under this time that Vasa 1 regerer So, that the same the waza-letters

They're the landetre They're, they're They're the landet, they're They're, they're They're a very macted land. It'll be a so-called stormact

in Europe. A strong-mackt is a land that has very much and inflyt and in the world. And I have a

about the so-called stormactstead and it is an off-suit 227. So, that can you listen on if you will know what what that happened

after Gustav Wasas' life and the regerings' time. So, yeah, as most most of

most of the and the and the second a slavs of the the Swedish national staten but other

see him as a tyrant there's always two sides of samarmynt he gave he gave he'll

he gave Sweden He was a strong centralmact. He infuade protestantisman and a stark military. And this was very important, later on 1600th of the 30-year period. The 30-year period was between Catholics and Protestants. And Sweden stood on the winning side in that war. And it had very much, very strong effect on Sweden's history, can you say.

So, yeah. I hope it was interesting to listen to Gustavasa. And, yeah, have it so good. So, we'll hear's we soon again. Hey, on you. I'm