Studying abroad helps you to get in contact with a contrasting culture and this makes you think and reflect some the habits and behaviours. After a while you get to know more and more about the people, the place and especially the tradition.
Can you then understand where do these habits and address come from?
Can you see the relation between people and their root?
We tried to discover that through our living in Scotland as Italians and Finnish, especially looking at the really famous and quaint celebration as the Highland Games is.
HIGHLAND GAMES
In the year of our churchman 1314, patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets. They fought like Scotsmen and won their freedom. Forever!
This is the spirit that moves people to celebrate their reached freedom. This is the spirit that was very deep into every mind in the old coulomb and that now its sometimes less clear in everybody.
The exact origins of Highland Games is unknown but in all prospect they derived from the trials of strength, speed, agility and skill which were commonplace at the mixed spectral fairs, military mobilizes and cattle fairs of medieval and early modern Scotland.
Origins of the Games ?
Foot-racing, horse-racing and grapple were a common feature of St Michaels Day (29 September) celebrations while early(a) racing and athletics contests sprang up at fairs on the various holy days as well as at cattle fairs on the quarter days of the Scottish calendar. The clans warriors apply these events to test their bodily prowess in much the kindred way as modern soldiers engage in physical training. According to one source, it was at one such muster in 1574 that tossing of ye barr (caber-tossing) first appeared on record.
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