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I.
The Time before Gustavus II. (Adolphus).
Far back in those remote days when the giant forms of
Northern Mythology loomed out of the mist in unlovely
grandeur, when Ossian sang and runic stones were raised
in memory of battles, there is a legend of a host of Scots
or “ Skottarna ” sailing across the seas on a roving and
plundering expedition to Sweden and landing at Janum in
the Bohus district. Their king was called Valbred, and
his chief adviser Kuse. The frightened peasants, collected
round their chiefs, found time to ensconce themselves in
the Långevallspass, and awaited the enemy’s arrival.
Stubbornly the pass was defended. At last the Scots
gave way, but before they could reach the shore a battle
took place in the neighbourhood of Nafversdal Church
and Östad, where seventy huge stone pillars bear witness
to their defeat. The remaining Scots were cut down
before they gained their ships at a place where now Janum
Church stands.1
As the centuries rolled on, the ships of other Scottish
pirates, with the much dreaded Earl of Orkney at their
head, troubled the Baltic seas, and for a long time prevented
1 The legend has been poetically treated by Birger Ström in a little
epic called Skottarna i Janum, Grebbestad, 1900. There are about 120
of these stone pillars at Janum. Kuse reached the shore but was killed.
His grave is pointed out near Kuseröd, which was called after him
(öde = fate, destiny).
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