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they had tried to murder him, and he had escaped death
only by the courageous act of a priest called Engelbertus
Elai, who shielded him with his body. Not mindful of
this danger, he went again into Dalarne in 1598—or,
according to others, accompanied a king’s messenger of
the name of Båt,1 to carry the news of Duke Charles’s
banishment to the peasantry. Then the storm burst.
The peasants held a meeting at Fahlun; express messengers
were sent in all directions to carry the alarm; the tocsin
was sounded. In Tuna, N’af and the four envoys were
imprisoned and asked if Sigismund, the king, lived. On
their answering in the affirmative, the peasants shrieked :
M It is a lie; the Poles have sent a journeyman tailor
(skreddaregesell) in his stead to mock the Swedes.”
Näf was bound to a pig-sty and exposed to the most
atrocious acts of mad violence. Finally he was cast into
prison. In vain did he offer 2000 Thaler for his life,
and when he expressed a hope they would at least allow
him a barber to bind his wounds, if he were yet to
recover, a young Dalecarlian drew his sword and clove his
head with the words, u Take that for a plaster.” The body
was thrown into a ditch, but afterwards buried in Juna
Churchyard. On the tombstone erected by his
son-in-law (?), Skytte, in 1634, there is sculptured the figure of a
knight in full armour, with gauntlet and helmet at his feet.
On either side are the armorial shields of Neff, Baron of
Methie ; Lord de Gray ; Leslie, Earl of Rothes ; Lindsay,
Earl of Crawford, on the left; on the right: Wishart,
Baron of Pitarro; D. Lindsay; Lord Ogilvie; and
Ramsay, Lord of Auchterhouse. The inscription reads:—
1 Ihre adds to this: he did so, “ spe nixus officii recipiendi quod
reg-nante Johanne tertio apud eos judicis nomine administraverat.” This
would mean that he had lost the appointment during the Regency of
Duke Charles.
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