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they had taken with them two Bönder (peasant proprietors)
of Romsdalen as guides. But when one of his R. Maj.
lensmen in the parish of Vaage, which is situated in the
above-named bailiewick of Gudbrandsdal, by name Lauritz
Hage, perceived this, he at once roused the peasantry and
went forth against the said Scots. And when he
perceived that they were too strong for him, he advanced
for two or three days and kept before them along the
road without, however, engaging in any skirmish and
fight. Meanwhile he sent messengers to the peasantry
in the two adjoining parishes, who quickly came to his
assistance, and when they were in this manner gathered,
they were four or five hundred men strong. Thus he
advanced before them until he saw his advantage at a
field called Kringelen which they were obliged to pass.
Thus he turned them in between the rock on one side
and a large river close by on the other side, in which
advantageous position he encamped in the woods and
there lay with his men until the foreign soldiers arrived
there, without, however, supposing or knowing aught but
that the Norwegian troops were still withdrawing along
the road before them.
“The above-named Lauritz Hage having made his
arrangements and perceived his advantage, attacked,
together with another lensman Peter Rankleff of Ringeböe,
and with all their men together they fired upon the foreign
troops and shot them to death during an hour and a half.
Those who were not shot jumped into the river to save
themselves but were all drowned, and those of them who
got alive over the river were quickly killed by the Bönders
on that side, all of which happened and occurred on the
26th of August last.
u From the Bönders who were themselves present at
the battle, and who buried and counted the dead and the
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