<div>Ulf</div>
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<div>I am not as up on my history as you but werent most of the "bútr"(s) that they used as targets from Ireland? <g></div>
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<div>This corney joke brought to you by someone that woke UP way to early.</div>
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<div>Sæmundr<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Ulf Gunnarsson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ulfie@cox.net">ulfie@cox.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>"Butt" is from the Old Norse "bútr" meaning end of a log or stump. Such<br>were used for targets. Later it was used for the mounds of dirt that<br>
served as backstops for targets like stumps and wands. Such mounds are<br>often found in pairs, so by the late middle ages "the archery butts"<br>referred to the place where you went to shoot. This moment in history<br>
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