The farmers in Lærdal had been exempted from military service due to the heavy duty work on the stretch of road that went from Lærdal over the mountain pass known as Filefjell and to the district of Valdres.
Lysne was then captured, and he was sentenced to death and beheaded in June 1803 in Bergen.
Refusing to obey the King's commands was considered treason against the country, in an absolute monarchy (Denmark–Norway was an absolute monarchy at the time), this was in practise equal to treason against the King himself, i.e. lèse-majesté.
After the uprising, the farmers military service was organized as the Lærdal Light Infantry Company and its first commander was Wilhelm Jürgensen.
[3] Lysne is not as known as other Norwegian farmer rebel leaders from the last years of the Danish-Norwegian Union, like Jochum de Lange (Strilekrigen) and Christian Jensen Lofthuus.