Glima - Icelandic wrestling (1932)

British newsreel footage of an Icelandic Glima (belt-wrestling) tournament.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Glima
• wrestling
• Iceland
• early
• old
• newsreel

[CyclopsScott]

Its like skinny sumo.

[Dandrewz]

Andskotinn is a name for the devil.

Helvíti means hell.

Djöfull means demon.

[JohannIngi87]

Shit hvað þetta er töff, glíma er alveg solid sjálfsvörn. Ætti að skylda alla til að læra basic glímu, þá væri ekkert auðvelt að nauðga okkur...

[shmuckling]

@thorir30 Actually, I just read a bit about it and by watching this vid I'd wanna say it's closer to Judo than anything else - valueing the takedown, yet aiming for technique over strenght. Seems like a wonderful art. I'd deff love to, and will, see more.

[thorir30]

As an Icelandic I think its great to see this. Its not much like sumo. You hold on to the otherones belt and try to get him down by using the feet. When he is down, he loses.

[91Canadiankid]

Vá! Þetta er mjög gömul!

[Geiri669]

i said this was a lovely sport thats all.. and dandjewz want to suck me. how rude

[theheffner69]

my great grandpa was a world champ!

[megasayajinsongoku99]

Geiri669 what do you mean??? And speak english!!!

[ofschorchedpumpkins]

lolz

[Njurvar]

Meiriháttar!

[dantemustkill]

thank you andrew! that seems a little redundant to me but i am not a native speaker =P