Celtic Festival and Highland Games III

It seems to me like the ancient Celts were a rather warlike bunch. The bagpipes screeched into battle to scare their enemies. The shops prominently feature weapons. The Highland Games all seem devoted to warlike purposes as well.







There seem to be several typical divisions of highland games:

Caber Toss
Stone Put
Scottish hammer throw
Weight throw
Weight over the bar
Sheaf Toss

The Scots are famous for eating oatmeal...while in England the oats were fed to the horses. From this arose the observation: What mighty horses they have in England...but what mighty MEN they have in Scotland!

Here are a few pictures of some of the events:















And of course, we pioneers drummed up a little competition of our own with some cub scouts in order to get some firewood cut.