ABSTRACT
FOR training their young men the Göotar and Swedes of the North have another game, too, in which they drill themselves by leaping about among naked swords and unprotected thrusting blades.1 As they grow up they learn this through a certain athletic routine under instruction from experts and a dance leader, while accompanying themselves with singing. They demonstrate this sport chiefly during Shrovetide, the time of masquer ade, to use the Italian term.2
