BS: Greenland Law for Mudcat disputes?

Subject: BS: Greenland Law for Mudcat disputes?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 09:58 AM

Greenlanders..had a rather jolly system for resolving disputes. The contestants competed by singing satirical songs and making hurtful remarks about each other while playing a shallow drum, the issue being decided on the strength of each side's performance
(From next week's Radio Times* previewing a BBC radio 4 programme by Clive Anderson on Greenland Law.

*(Like the TV Guide in USA)

RtS
(the shallow drum bit sounds scary!)

Subject: RE: BS: Greenland Law for Mudcat disputes?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 09:59 AM

OOOOPS!
That should be BS NOT Obit, of course,
Calling Mudelf...come in please...
RtS

your wish is (usually) our command!

Subject: RE: BS: Greenland Law for Mudcat disputes?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 10:22 AM

"while playing a shallow drum" - that'd be a kind of bodhran.

That's quite a deterrent!

Subject: RE: BS: Greenland Law for Mudcat disputes?
From: mooman
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 10:36 AM

"The contestants competed by singing satirical songs and making hurtful remarks about each other while playing a shallow drum, the issue being decided on the strength of each side's performance."

So rather like a Mudcat BS thread really...?

Peace

moo

Subject: RE: BS: Greenland Law for Mudcat disputes?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 01:26 PM

Except that on a Mudcat BS thread the issue never does get decided.

Subject: RE: BS: Greenland Law for Mudcat disputes?
From: Deckman
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 01:34 PM

In old Finland, the ancient rune singers did something similiar. They would sit at a small table, facing each other, place their elbows on the table and lock hands. Then they would start to since the old stories of the Kalavala. These singing contests would go for hours on end. In some of books of the Kalavala, there a etchings and woodcuts of these events. Bob