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You are correct I bow to age before beauty I even think you
are prettier than I.
Sinclair
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: Clan Memberships
At 19:31 02/05/00 +0100, you wrote:
Niven check the word Clan litteral translation
"Children"
Sinclair
Check the word
literal.
Niven
----- Original Message -----
From:
Niven Sinclair
To: sinclair@matrix.net
Cc:
Milamba@milamba.com ; sinclair@matrix.net
Sent:
Tuesday, May 02, 2000 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: Clan
Memberships
At 00:10 03/05/00 +1000, you wrote:
Hello Scottie,
Welcome to the
Sinclair list! Where do you hail from? That's very true you
know - a clan is not an incorporated body - I don't rightly recall
anyone saying it was! BUT a Clan Association generally is an
incorporated body, and I believe there was mention of Clan Associations
rather than Clans per se. And it's great to hear your world is
about being alive! :) Hopefully everyone's
is!
Regards
Margaret :)
At 11:16 PM 2/05/00, you
wrote:
I don't know about other
people but I'm not motley. I am a Clansman. I support my
Chief. A Clan is not a legal incorporated body. It IS a
family. As far as I'm concerned, I'm related to every Sinclair
there is! Your world may be about bits of paper, mine's about
being ALIVE!
-Scottie
Scottie,
I'm
glad you are "alive" otherwise you e-mail might have suggested a message
from
the other side.
Alas, so many people are dead but don't
know it or have committed partial suicide by
failing to realise and,
thereby, release the true talents which lie within each and everyone
of us.
Yes, a Clan is a family (it actually means
a family in Gaelic) and we are luckier than most in
having a family
which spans the World and which has a lineage which we can be traced
back
for over a thousand years.
Indeed, in a letter
written by Henry, Lord Sinclair from Shetland to King John of Denmark
on
12th July, 1507 he takes us back even further because he
wrote:
"....even
in relation to the Earldom of Orkney and
Hietland
(Shetland)
which lands for certain services to be done to
the
Kings
of Norway were alienated heritably to my
progenitors
even
before the birth of Christ"
The House of Odin was
eventually heired by the Sinclairs through two of the sons
of
Rogenwald, the premier 'jarl' of Norway.
Through Hrolf 'the
Ganger' (known universally as Rollo) we gain our Norman
descent
and our name of St Clair because the Treaty which he signed
with Charles 'the Simple'
of France was signed at Castle St
Clair-sur-Epte.
Through his younger brother, Einar, who became the
'jarl' of Orkney, we gain our Norse
descent because the descendants of
these two brothers, Sir William St Clair of Rosslyn
and Isabel, the
daughter of Malise II of Orkney, married and gave birth to a son
who
inherited his Orcadian 'jarldom' through his mother and his
Scottish Estates through
his father.
This man was Prince Henry
Sinclair who made a momentous voyage to the New World
in 1398 - almost
100 years before Columbus.
Most of you already know this but
it deserves to be repeated again and again until
this PrInce of Men
eventually gets his rightful place in
history.
Scottie,
please join me and other Sinclairs in this great Crusade. It doesn't
matter if
we belong to a Clan Society, a Clan Association or a
Clan Trust - they key factor is to
belong, to participate, to be alive
(as you say) and in spreading the word to the younger
generation so
that they, too, might be proud to bear the name of Sinclair (and
the
responsibilities and duties which go with it).
Leave the
semantics to other people.
Niven
Sinclair
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