Ola Värmlänning was a drunken prankster whose legendary exploits were once very popular among the Swedish-American communities of Minnesota. A Swedish language book about him is in the collections of the Minnesota Historical Society.
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- Swanson, Roy (1948). "A Swedish Immigrant Folk Figure: Ola Värmlänning" (PDF). Minnesota History. 29 (2): 105–113. JSTOR 20175384.