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The march, named after the 1700 battle of Narva, can be traced back in written sources to 1797, when it appeared in a Swedish piano book as Marsch nyttjad då Carl XII:e nalkades Narva ("The March used as Charles XII approached Narva").[1] Its ultimate origin is unknown, although some have speculated on an ultimate Scottish[2] or Irish[3] origin.
In 1818, on the centennial of Charles XII's death, the Swedish poet Erik Gustaf Geijer wrote a poem to commemorate the event. His words are now often used with the march in Sweden, where it is consequently better known by the first line "Viken, tidens flyktiga minnen".
^Jonsson, Leif (1990). Ljusets riddarvakt: 1800-talets studentsång utövad som offentlig samhällskonst [Guardians of enlightenment: 19th century student songs as a form of "public art" in Swedish society]. Studia musicologica Upsaliensia (in Swedish). Uppsala: Uppsala University. p. 68.
