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September 17, 2015 10:48 AM

Jomsviking reenactors demonstrate the ancient sport of failing to hit each other with heavy bags. (SLYT)
posted by theodolite (18 comments total)

I'm not even drunk and that is hilarious, imagine playing after a few flagons.
posted by Mei's lost sandal at 10:54 AM on September 17, 2015 [2 favorites]

I don't know what's going on here but I support it wholeheartedly and without reservation.
posted by poffin boffin at 11:05 AM on September 17, 2015 [9 favorites]

D&D Dwarves would play this, but use axes instead of bags.
posted by The otter lady at 11:29 AM on September 17, 2015 [1 favorite]

I kept waiting for the guy in the white shirt's arm to completely snap when the other guy came down hard on it...

This was great to watch.
posted by Chuffy at 11:32 AM on September 17, 2015

In winter you make your own fun
posted by The Whelk at 11:46 AM on September 17, 2015 [2 favorites]

The best bit is when that one guy swings his bag too hard and hits himself and he is utterly incapacitated by his own helpless cackling

i identify with him so much
posted by poffin boffin at 11:49 AM on September 17, 2015 [7 favorites]

Next Chicago meetup, pls.
posted by phunniemee at 11:57 AM on September 17, 2015 [2 favorites]

This is a game with the incredible name Spanking Markus:

Daska Markus (Spanking Markus) is a Swedish game of unknown age for two players. They are both blindfolded and ask each other questions according to old sayings. That’s the first part. In the second part, the one asking spanks the one answering with a straw-filled sack. In this game you have to listen carefully.

A great, awful translation about the game: Students who beat each other. Staff who beat students. Relax, it's only about Perstorp Gymnasium traditional jullekar in Northern luck School gymnasium.

A great, terrible translation of the rules:

The fighters are on your knees and take each other in hand. They wear the hat / cap and blindfolded, in his free hand a wooden plate. (Replaced by a string in which a foam rubber ball tied up). "Mark, do you want to taste my daskus?" asks the one and must then attempt to turn off the other hat.
posted by maxsparber at 12:08 PM on September 17, 2015 [6 favorites]

I thought I loved this as much as I could and then I read the name "Spanking Markus" and learned I have an infinite capacity to love certain things.

Then I read this: "Mark, do you want to taste my daskus?" and understood something much greater than infinity.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 12:24 PM on September 17, 2015 [10 favorites]

This is maybe the best sport I've ever seen. I don't even drink.
posted by Joey Michaels at 12:26 PM on September 17, 2015

WHY DID YOU POST THIS AT THE END OF BARBECUE SEASON?


....I guess there's next year.
posted by lumpenprole at 1:23 PM on September 17, 2015

This is a spot-on distillation of what's going on at the department meetings I've been attending lately at work.
posted by umbú at 2:06 PM on September 17, 2015 [3 favorites]

this is everything
posted by numaner at 2:25 PM on September 17, 2015 [1 favorite]

Blind purse-fighting? That's where I'm a Viking!
posted by CKmtl at 4:39 PM on September 17, 2015 [2 favorites]

Each of them manages to get in one good solid smack on the butt of the other; you can even see a 6" wet spot on the shirt of the one in brown right over his rear for a while late, then he gets his shot in, though he hits more on the left leg -- and right after that it seems to be over.
posted by jamjam at 4:47 PM on September 17, 2015

Do these guys not have sticks and duct tape.

More importantly, has no one told them that armour is teh hotness?
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 11:45 PM on September 17, 2015

Great fun, I want to play.

Nice how one person wonders out of a tent in the background using what appears to be an electric toothbrush
posted by illongruci at 1:34 AM on September 18, 2015

Tack så mycket for sharing this! wonderful
posted by henry scobie at 7:32 AM on September 18, 2015