----- Original Message -----
From: "Iain Laird" <Iain.Laird@btinternet.com>
To: <sinclair@matrix.net>
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 6:37 AM
Subject: In the footstps of George Sinclair 1612
> I have to report a single honour as one of the representatives of Clan
> Sinclair here in Otta for the annual Pillarguri Days, commemorating the
> 1612 Battle of Kringen. Yesterday evening I was asked to join the
> Pillarguri Committee in the "Sinclair Stue" (Sinclair Corner) in the
> Norlandia Otta Hotel. Syvver Bakken made a short speech in Norwegian and
> Inge Leif Larsen translated it, advising that their Scottish Guest was to
> be made a Member of Sinclair's Club. He pinned the badge on my lapel.
The
> badge is silver, of the man riding backwards on his horse,
Why is the man riding backwards on his horse?.
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