[64] The Vaage church register contains, with reference to the entire event, only the following lines, entered by Anders Munch, priest, in 1731: "Anno 1612. Colonel Jörgen (George) Zinchel, as he came from Romsdalen with 900 men to combine with the Swedes, who were at Baare Church (that is, Borge Church, in Smaalenene), was attacked by the Bönder at Kringlen, and totally beaten, with all his men, excepting his wife, and three handicraftsmen of whom the Bönder had need."
[65] [This is evident from the documentary history of the two expeditions given in the present work.—T. M.]
[66] In his "Norges Beskr," pp. 85 and 181.
[67] Kruse's Report. [Dean Krag appears to have been acquainted only with Kruse's first Report, which he reproduced as an appendix to his work. The translation of a more accurate copy will be found at [p. 180].—T. M.]
[68] Such was the name of the farm in the old church registers. It is now called Klungnæs. Klüwer in his "Norske Mindesmærker" (Norwegian Memorials), p. 124, states that it was a member of the noble family of Skaktavl, persecuted in the reign of Christian II., and who had consequently fled to Romsdalen, where the descendants lived as Bönder on the farm or gaard of Hellan, that Sinclair wanted to compel to pilot his ships into Væblungsnæs.
[69] [A message passed on in the hollow of a staff.—T. M.]
[70] Some say that he wrote this on a piece of wood on the way up to his house from the sea-shore.
[71] [Each seven English.—T. M.]
[72] In his "Reise igjennem Norge" (Travels through Norway), vol. ii., p. 112.
[73] [As already shown, all these accusations are devoid of truth. See Kruse's Official Report, [p. 185].—T. M.]