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.A fleet, merce-naries, and artillery required far more than traditional farm levies.This was the background against which King Christian s drastic taxeshad to be understood, and it was not easily explained to countryfolk.Accounts for the fortress in Bergen between 1516 and 1523 havebeen preserved and make it possible to follow the implementationof the crown s revenue enhancing schemes in western and north-ern Norway.10 When Hansen took over Bergenhus, he disposed ofSunnhordland, Nordhordland, and Ryfylke (Rogaland).Bergen alsoadministered great territories in the far north.Clerks at Bergen-hus accounted for taxes and fees from other fiefholders, includingthe greatest names in Norway, Henrik Krummedige, Olav Galle,Archbishop Valkendorf, the bishop of Bergen, Apostles Church, andMunkeliv Cloister.11 All this only whetted Hansen s appetite; he pur-sued new prizes boldly throughout Christian II s reign.Norwegians paid traditional extraordinary taxes ungrudgingly.There was a food tax for Christian s coronation in Oslo in 1514.Next year there was a tax to cover the costs of the king s mar-riage and his consort s coronation.Norwegians paid both taxes with-out murmuring.Then came an extraordinary tax of two marks7DN III, nr.1085.8DN XXII, nr.127.9Hamre 1998, 154 55.10NRJ I V.11HT XXXV (1949), 60ff; Fladby, 52ff; Utne, 42ff. Christian II s Other Kingdom 55in 1518 to finance the campaign in Sweden.Two marks was nosmall sum.Jørgen Hansen wrote the king that he had conferredwith farmers hereabouts, and some have answered well and othersbadly, like poisonous knaves.I hope they will also receive a knave sreward. 12Hansen was probably referring to the resistance in Rygjafylke,where farm folk convened an assembly to discuss a new tax they couldnot afford.They decided on the traditional remedy, a complaint to theking.Jon Eilivsson, a member of the lesser nobility, agreed to carry theletter.Hansen had him arrested and sent to the tower in Bergen.13There, Eilivsson wrote his own letter to the king.The tax protestwas peaceful, not an expression of disobedience.He had agreed tocarry the letter of protest, but had warned farmers to be ready topay if his mission failed.14 Hansen ignored Eilivsson s excuses andhad him executed probably, says Lars Hamre, because he had daredto convene an assembly of farmers without permission.15 Countryfolk paid heavily for the protest.Hansen added heavy fines to thetwo-mark tax, and collected the sums himself.In his letter to the king Eilivsson had excused himself, said otherswere guilty of worse crimes, and named Orm Eriksson.Orm wasan important figure in farm society with family ties throughout westNorway and on Iceland.Some time after Eilivsson s execution, JørgenHansen had Orm arrested and hanged, most probably in connectionwith tax collection and dubious accounts.Orm s loose goods weredivided between his widow and the crown.16 There was another casein Nordhordland where Jon Egilsson spoke at the assembly againstthe tax that His Grace levied on farmfolk. Hansen had him arrestedand freed him only after farmers paid a large sum.17Norwegian farmers were not easy to intimidate in tax mat-ters.Farmfolk assembled at Bjelkarøy south of Bergen, meaning toprotest.18 Hansen saw their assembly as open rebellion, summonedhis garrison and townsfolk, and moved on the rebels.After they haddispersed, he fined the farmers in Hardanger 900 marks.When theycould not pay, Hansen agreed to accept 600 marks from the bishopof Stavanger and 300 marks from the abbot of Lyse Cloister.Those12Hamre 1998, 155.13DN XXII, nr, 123.14Hamre 1998, 156.15Ibid., 156.16Ibid., 157.17NRJ I, 335, 353, 564, 579; V, 25.18DN VII, nr, 553; NRJ II, 537f, 541, 543 46, 548, 576, 613; I, 560, 598, 677; III, 125;V, 37. 56 Lord of the Northern World, 1513 1523who provided transport to the assembly were fined, and so were thoseburghers in Bergen who had declined to join Hansen s expedition.19In the fall of 1519 Copenhagen decreed a new tax.High and lowwere to pay 10 percent of their loose and fast goods; Bergeners escapedwith the lesser percentage of 5 percent.Even Jørgen Hansen shrankfrom collecting the tax; he was still dealing with the unrest stirredup by the previous levy
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