Produced by Charlene Taylor, Bryan Ness, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. Superscripts are denoted by ^ for example S^r and M^{tie}. Macrons over one or more characters are denoted by [= for example ca[=n]ot and [=com]andement. A line of asterisks denotes omitted text. Thought breaks, and new sections, are denoted by two blank lines. Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. Punctuation or lack of it in the Appendix documents has been left unchanged. More detail can be found at the end of the book. [Illustration: Sketch Map, SHOWING ROUTES OF MÖNNICHHOFEN AND RAMSAY] HISTORY OF THE SCOTTISH EXPEDITION TO NORWAY IN 1612. _By_ _THOMAS MICHELL, C.B.,_ _Her Majesty's Consul General for Norway._ London: T. NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW. EDINBURGH; AND NEW YORK. CHRISTIANIA: T. BENNETT, TOURIST AGENT. 1886. _Rights of Translation and Reproduction reserved for the benefit of the Anglican Church at Christiania._ Dedicated, BY GRACIOUS PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY OSCAR II. KING OF SWEDEN AND NORWAY, &c. &c. &c. WITH THE DEEPEST GRATITUDE AND THE MOST PROFOUND RESPECT OF THE AUTHOR. Preface. The idea of investigating the story of the Scottish Expedition to Norway in 1612 occurred to the author on a trip through the beautiful valleys of Romsdal and Gudbrandsdal in the autumn of 1884--many of the statements made on that subject in guide-books, and in almost every work on Norway, having appeared incredible when he left the highway and explored the old bridle-path along which the Scots marched on their way to Sweden. Subsequent researches in State Archives, made with the kind assistance which has been heartily acknowledged in the pages that follow, resulted in the discovery of official documents hitherto unavailable, and with their aid the traditional account of the "Skottetog" has, in its chief outlines, been reduced to strict historical proportions. The information thus acquired was utilized by the author in a lecture delivered in 1885 at the University of Christiania, in the gracious presence of His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, for the benefit of the Building Fund of the Anglican Church in that city.