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to his honour, advantage, and command, he shall always
find us willing. The Chancellor is hereby commended to
God Almighty. Done at Aggershuus, 17th Sept. 1612.
“Enwold Krussze.”1
A second report from the same to the same adds but
little new information. It contains, however, one
significant passage which does away with the tales of ravages
and cruelties of the Scots current in Norwegian tradition
and poetry. “We have also since ascertained,” Kruse
writes, “ that those Scots who were defeated and captured
on their march through this country have absolutely
neither burned, murdered, nor destroyed anything either in
Gudbrandsdalen or in Romsdalen, excepting only one Danish
man, who lives in the Romsdal, SöfFram Settnes. From him
they have taken a box filled with various kinds of silver,
both tankards, belts and other such wrought silver. . . .
It was the plan of the aforesaid Scots to have made their
way into Sweden through Gudbrandsdalen over a mountain
called Österdalsfjeld in the parish of Jönset, which they
could have done easily in a five days’ march at the utmost,
had not God, the most Almighty, destroyed them ”
(October 3).
We now come to Sir Robert Anstruther’s report to
King James, dated 26th October, 1612 : “Doubtless Your
M. hath heard,” he writes, “ of that unfortunate accident2
that happened unto three hundred of Your M.’s subjects
which landed in Norway under command of Alexander
Ramsay, lieutenant-colonel to Colonel Ramsay, and Captains
Hay and Sinclair. After they had marched six days within
the country, pressing to go through to Sweden, they were
overcharged by the inhabitants and all killed except a few.
1 See Michell, l.c., pp. 180 ff.
2 Notice how Kruse calls it the work of God, Anstruther an accident.
It was an atrocious crime.
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