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Real world tarn strikes and the sport inspired by it. - 2/14/2008 12:19:20 AM

nephandi

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Greetings

There is a sport that is growing in popularity especially in Hong Kong where the man carry his wife and then race other men carrying their wifes. What is funny is that this sport comes from Finland where it was common to run into other villages, steal a woman and run. It was common for bandits to do this to. This reminded me of tarn strikes. Could this be Norman's inspiration for tarn strikes. Finish men running to the next village, snatching a woman and running away whit her?

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RE: Real world tarn strikes and the sport inspired by it. - 2/14/2008 7:02:06 PM

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greetings nephandi,
sort of reminds me of the old cave man image with the club in hand smashing it across his womans head, and dragging her back to his cave......
you can probably link this back to any form of stealing, ravaging,
Vikings, Pirates, Robin Hood...

so once the man has the wife..what does he do with her??? (wouldn't it be nice if he could just brand and put on an auction block)....

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RE: Real world tarn strikes and the sport inspired by it. - 2/14/2008 9:03:51 PM

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ORIGINAL: nephandi

Could this be Norman's inspiration for tarn strikes....?

Like many things in the books, I see tarn strikes as a parable, reflective of an aspect of masculine and feminine human nature. The Finnish custom is a particular case. There are others, as one might expect. I take things in the books as fabulous and meaningful, embodying knowledge as in a fable. The particular exemplars need not be real, or even "based" on anything real. If the exemplar is correct, we are likely to find cases which embody its truth in a real life practice or tradition.

I think Norman presents a fairly coherent philosophy, and has crafted his exemplars to embody it. I don't think he said to himself, "Hey, that's a cool thing to throw in!" -- creating his books as a tossed salad of concepts and practices from around the world. I think, instead, that he got his ideas from his philosophy, and then we look around and see examples of it.

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RE: Real world tarn strikes and the sport inspired by it. - 2/15/2008 12:38:59 AM

nephandi

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Greetings Master

Thank you for your reply. i to think he got inspiration from his philosophy, but there are many things in the books that are directly inspired from some thing common in some nation and time in history so i was just wondering if this was one of those things.

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RE: Real world tarn strikes and the sport inspired by it. - 2/15/2008 12:45:11 AM

nephandi

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Greetings

In Scandinavia it was not uncommon to steal other settlements women and marry them. Even one of the most famous Norse queens got married that way.

Queen Åsa was the daughter of a Norwegian petty king, another petty king asked her father to marry her but got no so he kidnapped her, killed her brother and father and married Åsa. It is believed that queen Åsa murdered her husband as revenge, she then went back to her father's lands and ruled as queen until her son came of age.It is believed it is queen Åsa that is buried in one of the most famous ship graves we have found in Norway.

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