seventy-nine / 79 hammer throw sleggjukast wooden pole tréskaft rope reipi pulls togar hardest fastast thistle þistill prickly oddhvass attacked réðust á stealing stela quiet hljótt stepped steig associated tengt Hammer throw This is not a regular hammer! The hammer used for the Highland Games is made from a big metal ball on a wooden pole. The competitor swings the hammer and throws it as far as he or she can. Tug o'war You have probably tried a tug of war at some time. You have a team at each end of a rope and the team that pulls hardest, wins. At the Highland Games, the tug of war is extremely competitive. There are eight men in each team – they are very strong, and they pull very hard. Did you know? Scotland’s national flower is the thistle and there is a very special legend associated with it. As you know, the Vikings were not always very friendly. They often attacked the local villages, stealing things and killing people. One dark night, a group of Vikings landed near a village in the north of Scotland. They were very quiet because they wanted to surprise the sleeping people. But one of the Vikings stepped on a prickly thistle by mistake. He screamed in pain and all the people in the village woke up. After that, the thistle became Scotland’s national flower.
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