By Roland Huntford
Roland Huntford's excellent heritage starts 20,000 years in the past within the final ice age at the icy tundra of an unformed earth. guy is a traveling animal, and on those icy slopes snowboarding all started as a way of survival. That it has built into the rest and carrying pursuit of selection by means of rather a lot of the globe bears testomony to its elemental attraction. In polar exploration, it has replaced the process heritage. somewhere else, in battle and peace, it has performed so too. The origins of snowboarding are sure up in with the emergence of contemporary guy and the area we are living in at the present time.
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This may have been the origin of making planks. It is also yet another echo of the unfortunate Tunk-Pox. It was probably the origin of the magic tree out of which he made his ski. According to the legend, that tree had longitudinal cracks that sang when the wind blew. In fact, the fissures in compression wood do creak eerily as the tree bends to the wind. The association of myth and ski echoes down the years. There is, for example, a latter-day Norwegian fairy tale of a little boy who heard that one could make 4.
He checked his references and, in his own words, had actually met ‘those who come to us from … Thule’. Living in Constantinople, Procopius probably meant wandering Scandinavian mercenaries, ancestors of the Vikings, THE EARLIEST WRITTEN SOURCES 21 who saw in what they called ‘The Big City’ a lucrative year out soldiering. The central figure in this story perhaps also gleaned his knowledge from other roving Scandinavians. He was a Lombard monk of the eighth century called Paulus Diaconus. A familiar of Charlemagne, he lived in Italy, probably at Monte Casino, and wrote in (rather vivid) Latin a history of the Lombards.
Paulus’s Scritobini was only one variant of the Skrithiphinoi of Procopius. In different forms, and far apart, the word had been circulating for some time. 30 Whatever their exact name, they achieved a credibility denied the Hyperboreans or the Hippopodes. They enjoyed even the imprimatur of the Papacy. Around ad850 Pope Gregory IV, and some 300 years later, Innocent II allotted what the one called Scredevindan and the other, Scrideuindie, to the Archbishop of Hamburg, as Primate of Scandinavia.