[Sca-cooks] hurley

[Edouard de Bruyerecourt]

Stefan li Rous wrote:

> 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! 

I recall reading about hurley in a Nat'l Geographic years ago. They made 
the comment that play is not stopped for an injury, unless the player 
cannot walk off the field.

It crossed my mind once that hurley was a tactic by the Irish to scare 
away potential invaders. ("They do this for _sport_?)

-- 
Edouard, Sire de Bruyerecourt
bruyere at jeffnet.org
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