DN, Volume XXII, No. 123, note. Kvitrud implies in his essay, "Orm på Vestlandet, that the handwriting of the letter did not match the known handwriting of Jon Eilifson.
Jørgen Hansson, the son of a shipwright from Ribe in Denmark, was the 11th Governor of Bergenhus len from 1516 to 1523. He was with Christian II in exile and the War of the Two Kings ( 1531 - 1532 ) but he died in 1543 in the Netherlands, his wife's homeland. His biography by Halvard Bjørkvik can be found at the online Norsk Biografisk Leksikon [ Norwegian Biographical Dictionary ] website.
(in Norwegian)Lars Hamre, Norsk politisk historie 1513–1537 [ "Norwegian Political History 1513–1537" ] ( Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, 1998 ), ISBN978-8252152104, page 156. Lars Hamre believed that Eilifson was being executed for organizing an assembly of farmers without permission from the authorities.
