The only change, apparently, is that a ball has been substituted for the head.
At 07:58 PM 4/7/2005, you wrote:
>Mark said:
>
> > There's also that strange game played once a year in Stromness in the
> > Orkneys--can't remember what it's called. Takes a full year for the
>injured
> > to heal and the dead to be buried.
>
> Oh, that was the *original* version of soccer.
>
>Rumour has it that the First Football was a viking's head, there was no
>limit to how many people were on either team, and the goal-posts were three
>miles apart.
>
>At least shinty had *some* rules, but Orkney soccer could sometimes get
>quite seriously violent.
>
> St. Magnus
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