There is a legend in Sweden, that during some power struggle in the 16th century, several high-ranking persons had put their seals on a document which, after a

There is a legend in Sweden, that during some power struggle in the 16th century, several high-ranking persons had put their seals on a document which, after a change in political tides, put them at a very real risk of losing their heads in the event now known as "the Stockholm bloodbath". One of them — the bishop Hans Brask — then cracked open his seal to reveal a note saying (in 15xx Swedish) "I'm being forced to do this". He got to keep his head, and the word "brasklapp" (literally "Brask note") now means a reservation or caveat.