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the development of a peaceful traffic between the two
countries.
Putting aside the question whether these so-called
Scots at Janum were not in reality Irish, we come to the
time when the true Scots redeemed all their hostile
actions of long ago by their faithful services under the
banner of Sweden, from the time of Eric XIV., or the end of
the sixteenth century, until the beginning of the
nineteenth, when Swedish troops for the last time took the
field to oppose the great disturber of European peace.
This assistance was sought for.
When a small nation hardly numbering three millions of
souls is bold enough to engage in war against powerful
neighbours of three times the size and resources, it is
driven by necessity to alliances on the one hand and to
recruiting in foreign countries on the other. Sweden has
tried both. She has had allies to-day whom she met on
the battle-field to-morrow. As for recruiting, in the reign
of Gustavus Vasa German legionaries were employed.
It was Denmark then that made Scotland her recruiting
ground. Sweden was highly indignant at this. It
appears, moreover, from various documents, that the most
extraordinary notions, mixed with no little apprehension,
prevailed about these Scots. “The King of Denmark
expects a powerfully efficient force from Scotland,” writes
Hemming Gad 1 from Kalmar on the 9th of January 1507,
and in a report addressed by Sture Jonsson to the Riks-Räd,
on the 20th of January 1511, he calls the Scots the
“ocristelige,” the “unchristian” Scots.1 2 Of the same
import is a third reference to these auxiliaries in a letter
1 Doctor Hemming Gad was Bishop of Linköping, and, during the
reign of Sten and Svante Sture (1504-72), one of the leading men in
Sweden.
2 Bidrag to Skandinavias Historia, C. G. Styffe, v. 189, 434.
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