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The Battle of Kringen was an ambush perpetrated by a Norwegian peasant militia against Scottish soldiers who were on their way to enlist in the Swedish army for the Kalmar War. By all accounts, the battle took on a character of a massacre, as the Scottish soldiers were lightly armed and many were summarily executed on the battlefield or shortly thereafter. The battle has since become a part of folklore in Norway, giving names to local places in the Otta region. A longstanding misconception was that George Sinclair, chief of the Highland Clan Sinclair was the commander of the forces; in fact, he was subordinate to Ramsay.
