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  1. "The family Skraggenstierna (page 271) starts with the known legend of the Skragge-familys' noble descent, and it it, we are told that a scottish king once in ancient times landed on an uninhabited island and on it was tormented by hunger. But there were wild goats there and he promised a reqard, for the man that caught a buck. There was a success, and the man who handed over the buck, got the goods Kragie, and also the name Skragge, which is said to mean "buck". We remain unsure whether the legend is true or not. But we do want to bring up another old story, which shows that the name Skragge has been known and - who knows - maybe even have been arisen in Wermland in the 1400s, och in the area were the house of Skragge first appears. In the "chamber archives" there is a testimony from a witness, given by many farmers the 28 of February 1576, about the farm in Hällebostad, where the following was said: There was a farmer named Joen Skragga, who borrowed a boat from an acquaintance called "Pelle in Ramstadh" and he rowed to Hammarö and took four goats and a hand quern, and then rowed to Staffuichen and stopped by a islet, called Kyllingaholmen, to take a nap. While he slept, the boat drifted away to a cape, named "Messeuich", where the boat broke. Then the previously mentioned "Pelle" said to Joen: /*I could not translate this really old Swedish any further - but long story short; Joen had to give the farm to Pelle or something like that */. You cannot deny that there is a slight similarity between the story of Johns (Joen) voyage and the scottish knight Skragges adventures, but this isn't reliable enough, so that you can claim this as the orgiin of the name Skragge. The farmers previously mentioned said that John took 4 goats and a hand quern and that this crime alone was enough to start calling him »the skragge», which back in the days were, and still in some places today, is another name for wolf. This nickname could have transform with time and eventually ended up as the name of the family. This explanation of the old familyname is certainly in comparison with the legend too prosais, but it is not impossible when the Skragge-family first appear in the area, that the legend as well as the family was ennobled. Killingeholmen became an uninhabited island, the tame goats got undomesticated, and Pelle, who took "the goods Kragie (= the farm Hällebostad)" as a fine, was replaced by a scottish king."
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