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PEDER See also: naval See also: hero, See also: born between 1491 and 1503, at his See also: father's estate at Urup near See also: Horsens in See also: Jutland
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He first saw seivice in the See also: Swedish. war of Christian II. at the See also: battle of Brannkyrka, 1518, and at the battle of See also: Upsala two years later he saved the See also: life of the Danish See also: standard-See also: bearer
.
For his services in this -war he was rewarded with an estate in See also: Norway, where he settled for atime - with his See also: young See also: consort Elsebe Krabbe
.
During " Grevens Fejde," of " the Count's
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War," See also: Skram, whose reputas tion as a sailor- was already established, was sent by the Danish See also: government to assist Gustavus See also: Vasa, then in See also: alliance with Christian See also: Ill. against the partisans of Christian II., to organize the untried Swedish See also: fleet; and Skram seems; for the point is still obscure, to have shared the chief command with the Swedish See also: Admiral Mans Some
.
Skram greatly hampered the movements of the Hanseatic fleets who fought on the See also: side of Christian IL; captut^ed'a Whole See also: Lubeck See also: squadron off See also: Svendborg, and prevented the revictualling of See also: Copenhagen by Lubeck
.
But the incurable suspicion of Gustavus I. minimized the successes of - the allied fleets throughout 1535
.
Skram's services were richly rewarded by Christian III., who knighted him at his See also: coronation, made him a' senator and endowed him with ample estates
.
The broad-shouldered, yellow-haired admiral was an out-and-out patriot and greatly contributed as a senator to the victory ofthe Danish party over the See also: German in the See also: councils of Christian III
.
In
1555, feeling too infirm to go to See also: sea, he resigned his See also: post of admiral; but whenl the Scandinavian Seven Years' War broke out seven years later; and the new See also: king,
See also: Frederick II., offered Skram the• chief command, the old hero did not hesitate a moment
.
With a large fleet he put to sea in See also: August 1562 and compelled the Swedish admiral, after a successful engagement off the See also: coast of See also: Gotland, to take See also: refuge behind the Skerries
.
This, however, was his See also: sole achievement, and he was superseded at the end of the See also: year by Herluf See also: Trolle
.
Skram now retired from -active servite, but was twice (1565-1568)- unsuccessfully besieged by the Swedes in his See also: castle of Laholm, which he and his
who See also: form a kind of mutual-aid association
.
Meetings are held See also: late at See also: night in cellars, and last till dawn
.
At these the men See also: wear long, wide, See also: white shirts of a
See also: peculiar cut with a girdle and large white See also: trousers
.
See also: Women also dress in white
.
Either all See also: present wear white stockings or are barefoot
.
They See also: call themselves " White Doves." They have a kind of eucharist, at which pieces of See also: bread consecrated by being placed for a while on the monument erected at Schlusselberg to Selivanov are given the communicants
.
The society has not always been content with proselytism
.
Bribes and violence have been often used
.
See also: Children are bought from poor parents and brought up in the faith: The See also: Skoptsi are millenarians, and look for a See also: Messiah who will establish an See also: empire of the See also: saints, i.e. the pure, , But the Messiah, they believe, will not come till the Skoptsi number 144,000 (Rev. xiv
.
1, 4), and all their efforts are directed to reaching this See also: total
.
The Skopitsi"s favourite See also: trade is that of See also: money-changer, and on, 'Change in St See also: Petersburg there was for long a bench known as the "Slcoptsi's bench." Of late years there is said to have been a tendency on the See also: part of many Skoptsi to consider their creed fulfilled by chaste living merely
.
See Anatole Leroy-See also: Beaulieu, The Empire of the Tsars (Eng. trans., 1896), vol. iii
.
; E . Pelikan, Geschichtlich= medizinische Untersuchungen fiber das Skopzentum. in Russland ( See also: Giessen, 1876) ; K
.
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.
Grass, Die geheime heilige Schrift der Skopzen (See also: Leipzig, 1904) and Die russischen Sekten (Leipzig, 1907, &c.)
.
wife defended with See also: great intrepidity., His estates in Halland intent, " Dunghunters." On See also: land, however, whither they were also repeatedly ravaged by the enemy
.
Skram died; at
an advanced age, at ilrup on the 11th of See also: July 1581
.
Skram's audacity won for him the See also: nickname of " See also: Denmark's dare-devil," and he contributed. perhaps more than any other Dane of his See also: day to destroy the Hanseatic dominion of the Baltic
.
His humanity was equally remarkable; he often ims perilled his life by preventing his crews from plundering
.
See Axel Larsen, Dansk-Norske Heltehistorier (Copenhagen, 1893)
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