[3] A year later, in 1510, Orm Eriksson av våpen (with his coat-of-arms) and wife Astrid Ormsdotter bought the Hana farm in Sandnes.
Rogaland, like the other areas of Norway, had been obliged to supply extra taxes and men to support the war.
[6] The illegitimate son of the former bishop of Stavanger, Eiliv Jonsson [no], he had been asked by the commoners in Ryfylke to deliver their letter to the king to have their taxes reduced but was arrested before he could accomplish his mission.
He wrote that there was violence in the conflict between the commoners and the lensherre (governor) of Bergenhus len, Jørgen Hansson.
Orm was a nobleman but, at that time, he was neither a lagmann (judge) nor a fogd (bailiff) so he did not have the legal authority.
Torkild may be the priest who had left the Diocese of London in England for the University of Rostock in Germany in 1519 to further his studies.
It is possible that Hoskuld Hoskuldsson, who succeeded Eiliv Jonson as the Bishop of Stavanger, sent Torkild abroad for the studies to keep him away from Orm and the authorities for a while.
Sending possible witnesses out of the diocese was one of the bishop's usual tactics of dealing with problems; he had done it before in his dispute with the abbot of Utstein Abbey.
Unni Kurseth believed that Jon Eilivsson's letter was actually penned by one of the bailiffs of Bergenhus, possibly with either the blessing or support of the governor, to frame Orm Eriksson for the tax revolt in Rylfylke.
[13] A year later, on 7 September 1520 Orm Erikson paid his taxes with 83 lodd (2.9 ounces or 83 grams) of silver and 83 marks, 10% of his entire income.