[Sca-cooks] hurley

[Stefan li Rous]

Anahita mentioned:
> Naturally there
> was fighting on Saturday. And on Sunday the
> fighters were out on the Eric again, this time
> playing hurley.

Did you have the chirugeons standing by? How many injuries did you have?

There was a fad of hurley in our barony five or six years ago or so. 
Over the several months that it was being played we had more injuries 
playing this at fighter practice than we ever had from armored combat. 
If it had gone on much longer I wonder if the baron would have had to 
do to hurley what the medieval kings did to tournaments by restraining 
or limiting them, and for the same reason. If it had kept up we might 
have been rather limited in the number of fighters we could field in a 
melee!

However, the instigator, Robin Solarius, ended up moving to some 
northern kingdom and the fad died out. They were at one point even 
importing real hurley sticks from Europe, but they too, had a high rate 
of injury but they weren't self-healing.

Stefan
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