[674] Otté, Scandinavian History, 1874, pp. 214-18. Himself an excellent Latinist, he sought to raise the learned professions, and compelled the burghers to give their children schooling under penalty of heavy fines. He further caused new and better books to be prepared for the public schools, and stopped witch-burning. Cp. Allen, Histoire de Danemark, i, 281.
[675] Crichton and Wheaton, i, 377-79, 383; Allen, as cited, i, 286, 310.
[676] Otté, p. 222; Allen, i, 287, 290.
[677] Crichton and Wheaton, i, 384-86; Allen, pp. 287-90.
[678] Allen, i, 299, 300.
[679] Crichton and Wheaton, pp. 386, 387. These writers suppress the details as to Frederick's anti-popular action; and Otté's history, giving these, omits all mention of his act of toleration. Allen's is the best account, i, 293, 299, 301, 305.
[680] Crichton and Wheaton, pp. 394-96; Otté, pp. 222-24. According to some accounts, the great bulk of the spoils went to the nobility. Villers, Essay on the Reformation, Eng. tr. 1836, p. 105.
[681] It is notable that even in the thirteenth century there was a Norwegian king (Erik) called the Priest-hater, because of his efforts to make the clergy pay taxes.
[682] "The bulk of the people, at least in the first instance, and especially in Sweden and Norway, were by no means disposed to look to Wittenberg rather than to Rome for spiritual guidance" (Bain, Scandinavia, p. 86; cp. pp. 60, 64).
[683] Geijer, p. 177; Otté, p. 234.