After the campaign had ended, poet Georg Stiernhielm depicted both the war and the campaign in his work "Discursus Astropoeticus" () which, however, was not a traditional heroic tribute to the campaign. It was not until the 18th century when Swedish lyricists attempted to create a classic epic poem. Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht wrote the poem "Tåget öfver Bält" () in 1754, in which she depicted the events of Charles X Gustav's reign as a result of a play by supernatural forces. She entered her poem in the Royal Academy of Letters' first prize competition, though she did not win an award. The academy's secretary Olof von Dalin was accused of deliberately withholding the poem from Queen Lovisa Ulrika and the members of the academy. In 1785, Gustaf Fredrik Gyllenborg published the poem "Tåget öfver Bält". Neither Nordenflycht's nor Gyllenborg's work was successful with the public. Arnold Munthe wrote the play "Tåget öfver Bält", which was staged on 12 February 1920 at the Royal Dramatic Theatre with Tor Hedberg as director.