"They minded neither lead nor powder, It dried upon their brows; So tough was their flesh and their skin That lead could not through them go. Through cunning and magic art, Which they learned to a nicety, What was done to them was in vain,-- They did not even hiccough; So (the Bönder) took to their sharp pikes, And had to run them through; Then both skin and flesh were torn, And they made an end of them. But of the prisoners there were spared, I know, one less than twenty. Amongst them were two captains-- I will not tell a lie-- The one Captain Bruce by name, The other Captain Ramsey." Kruse writes respecting the prisoners:--"On the day the battle took place one hundred and thirty-four Scots were taken prisoners, who were straightway the next day killed and shot by the Bönder, with the exception of the above-named eighteen, the Bönder saying to each other that his Royal Majesty had enough to feed in those same eighteen. Some of these were, however, wounded, and some had bullets in their bodies when they arrived here.[107] Of the above-mentioned eighteen soldiers we now send to you[108] the three principal ones, who are a captain of the name of Alexander Ramsay, and his lieutenant of the name of Jacob Mannepenge [James Moneypenny], who has previously been both in Denmark and Sweden, and who on this their expedition served as an interpreter; the third is called Herrich Bryssz [Henry Bruce], who, according to his own statement, has served as a soldier in Holland, Spain, and Hungary. As regards the remaining fifteen persons, some of them have straightway taken service among good folk here in the country, and some who will willingly serve your Royal Majesty in Jörgen Lunge's[109] regiment, I sent at once to Elfsborg." This is alluded to as follows in the Valley Ballad:-- "They were then to the castle brought, No desire had they to remain.... They could not relish the fare so hard Which the Gudbrandsdal men gave-- Here are not many hens or sheep-- But lead and powder they got in their insides." That at least eighteen remained alive can thus be seen from Kruse's Report, and, moreover, that some few remained behind in the valley is recorded by tradition. Storm sings that none of the Scots ever saw their own country again. Nevertheless it is related of at least one of them that "he came home."[110] The place in Qvam parish where the Scots killed at the barn were buried, is still shown a little to the north of the barn, and is called Skothaugen ("The Scot hillock").