THERE ARE SPORTS WHICH CALL forth the most primal emotions in order to exorcise them for the good of the community — sports which make lesser men wonder and cringe, and old women pick up a frying pan — sports which proclaim a national character unchanged by time and politing circumstance — sports which sort of make me wish I was the sort of man who plays them. Forged among the Orkney Islands where men wrest their very living from the hoary North Sea …. Ba’.
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By coincidence, just did some info sipping about medieval Euro games. Work hard, play hard, die young… unless the Vikings, Romans, Normans, famine, plague or wolves get you first.