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If a player is struck, that is always invalid [i.e. there is never any redress]. If a player is wounded, one who goes with a fiddle, and with a viol or drum, then a wild heifer is to be brought to the raised middle of the assembly place. Then all the hair is to be shaved off its tail and the tail greased. Then the player is to be given newly-greased shoes. Then he is to hold the heifer by the tail and the heifer is to be lashed with a sharp whip. If he can hold it, then he shall have this fine animal and enjoy it as a dog enjoys grass. If he cannot hold it, let him have and put up with what he got, shame and hurt.

(From the older Västergötland Law, as reported in The Viking Achievement by Foote and Wilson.)

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Date: 2007-01-12 04:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com
Now that should be made an Olympic sport

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Date: 2007-01-12 04:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aardvark179.livejournal.com
What, shaved heifer tail holding or creating laws involving holding on to the shaved tails of heifers?

Both work for me, but I think the latter is more suited to the mind sports olympiad.

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Date: 2007-01-12 04:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com
I was thinkign of the physical sports, so yes, the former.

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Date: 2007-01-12 08:00 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] ewx.livejournal.com
I think I saw it in a click-through software licence once.

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