Sources:
Svenska folkets historia, volume 3, pages 135 to 136, by Erik Gustaf Geijer, 1836
The History of the Swedes, page 248, by Erik Gustaf Geijer, translated by J. H. Turner, Esq., M. A., 1845
The account:
Gustaf Adolf gick om bord i slutet af October vid Pillau, som han låtit befästa, och var d. 5 Nov. i Stock[h]olm. — Den 8 December, kl. 8 om aftonen, föddes honom här hans dotter Christina. "Då var jag hos Konungen i hans kammare ensam", — säger den yngre Gref Per Brahe i sin Tänkebok — "och hade då Konungen en stark skälfvesot (tertiana), hvilken han om hösten fick i Preussen. — Konungen fäktade med mig dubbelt i matsalen några dagar, och slog så att skälfvan släppte honom."
English translation (by Turner):
In the end of October, (1626,) Gustavus Adolphus embarked at Pillau, which he had fortified, and by the 5th November was in Stockholm. The 8th December, at eight in the evening, his daughter Christina was born to him. "I was then with the king alone in his chamber", says the younger count Peter Brahe in his journal, "and he had then a sharp tertian ague, which he had gotten in Prussia during the autumn. The king fenced with me some days in the dining-room, and thrust so, that the fever left him."
Note: Pillau is the old German name for what is now the town of Baltiysk, in the Baltiysky District of the Kaliningrad Oblast in Russia.
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