History of the Scottish expedition to Norway in 1612Michell, Thomas
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History of the Scottish expedition to Norway in 1612
Michell, Thomas
Norway -- History -- Scottish Expedition, 1612
[70] Some say that he wrote this on a piece of wood on the way up to
his house from the sea-shore.
[71] [Each seven English.--T. M.]
[72] In his "Reise igjennem Norge" (Travels through Norway), vol.
ii., p. 112.
[73] [As already shown, all these accusations are devoid of truth.
See Kruse's Official Report, p. 185.--T. M.]
[74] It appears from a Census for the taxation of Gudbrandsdal in
1612 that the farm was at that time occupied by a woman named Birte
Eneboe. ("List of those in Gudbrandsdal's bailiwick who were required
to pay by Michaelmas day 1612 the tax imposed for the requirements
of the war between these three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and
Sweden.") This list was made out by the bailie Lauritz (or Lars)
Gram, and contains the names both of the Odels Bönder (allodial
proprietors) and tenants, and of the owners of untenanted farms,
sub-tenants, and cottagers in the bailiwick.
[75] The fjeld which Kruse mentions in his Report, and calls
Mæratoppene, was undoubtedly near this spot.
[76] The river was thus called in the northern part of
Gudbrandsdalen; farther south it was more generally called Laugen.
[77] In Gram's Census are mentioned Trund Töndöffuel, Gunder Biockne,
and Peder Nordhuus as tenants in Lessö, but the farm of Kjelshuus is
not named.
[78] Rosten is a road along the cliff in Sel, an annex to Vaage,
leading to Dovre, and is a different place from Rusten, the name
of the road that leads to Vaage. Bægilskleven (Baglerkleven?) lies
in Ringebo, and Sinclair is reported to have said that as soon as
he reached it, he would take to the fjeld at Odlaug (Olo), a farm
in Ringebo, and thence come down to "the high bridge"--that is,
Tromse Bridge, in Ringebo, which also well deserved its name, for it
consisted of logs laid between two rocks, ninety feet high, over the
Tromse river, running below.
[79] Among the soldiers from Gudbrandsdalen who were with that army
was a man from Lunde, in Vaage, who is reported to have stated on his
return home that he had taken part in the burning of seven parishes.
[80] [District police and sheriff officer.--T. M.]
[81] Slange calls him a "Boelægsmand," which must be a clerical
or printer's error, as must also be the name of Hans, instead of
Lars, as he is called in the Sagas, and perhaps as he was called in
familiar language, or Lauritz, as he is named in Kruse's Report and
in Christian Fourth's Deed of Gift, and as he wrote it himself in a
letter still kept at Tofte farm, in the parish of Dovre. In Gram's
Census he is entered as Lauritz Hage, which was probably considered
to have a more distinguished sound than Lars Hage. However, the
name Lars does not occur anywhere in that Census, and "Lauritz" is
everywhere substituted for it. The bailie Gram also signs himself in
the Census not Lars, but "Lauritz," which is also the name on his
seal.
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