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to Germany, especially to the North-Eastern parts of it,
during the XVth, XVIth, and XVIIth centuries. We
have tried1 to elucidate this fact, which resulted in
the establishment of quite a number of Scottish colonies
throughout that country, and left its traces in the language,
in proverbs, on many a tomb and faded parchment, and
last, not least, in numerous public and charitable
institutions, which keep the memory of the foreign donor green,
long after his grave has been forgotten.
Already during the publication of our two volumes on
the Scots in Germany the fact became clear that the
influence of the Scot on the history of Sweden, once the
greatest Power of the North, has been, if different in its
character, quite as great and quite as deserving of special
study and research.
The Scottish emigration to Sweden was chiefly owing
to her military needs, and much less to the trading habits
of the Scots, though we likewise meet with the familiar
figure of the Scottish pedlar trudging along with his box
on his back, or dragged by his shaggy beast on rough
roads in the remote districts of a thinly populated country.
Only we do not now find the name of “ Schott ” or
€l Schotte ” given to the pedlar or enshrined in the
proverbs of the land, nor do any villages or suburbs in
the signification of their names commemorate the presence
and the settlements of the ubiquitous stranger.
A few instances which prove that the Scottish Kramer
and the edicts2 issued against him were not quite unknown
1 Th. A. Fischer, The Scots in Germany. Edinburgh, Otto Schulze & Co.,
1902. Th. A. Fischer, The Scots in Eastern and Western Prussia.
Edinburgh, 1903.
2 It is a remarkable fact, though not quite connected with the subject
on hand, that the numerous edicts, specimens of which we have given in our
Scots in Germany, nowhere contain any really serious charges against the
Scots. They were mainly issued in deference to the popular demand of
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