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- Glíma (anglicised as Glima) is an Icelandic sport for combat and is categorised as Nordic folk wrestling. The most common form of glima describe players...
- Glíma (Icelandic wrestling) was featured in the Summer Olympic Games demonstration programme in 1908 and 1912. Mallon, Bill; Heijmans, Jeroen (2011)....
- Unifight Greece Ancient Gr**** boxing Gr**** wrestling Pankration Iceland Glima Italy Italian martial arts Italian school of fencing Ireland Irish martial...
- po****tion is generally quite active. The main traditional sport in Iceland is Glíma, a form of wrestling thought to have originated in medieval times. Po****r...
- successful takedowns and throws. Grappling is a major part of combat glima and Løse-tak sport glima, and the fight continues on the ground if both combatants end...
- wrestling styles practiced nationwide there for much of the 19th century. Glíma, the national sport of Iceland and traces its history to the Vikings and...
- Tadeusz Glimas (17 February 1925 – 13 May 1969) was a Polish footballer. He pla**** in four matches for the Poland national football team from 1950 to 1952...
- Sölvi Pétursson, Ari Gunnarsson, Páll Logason and Eyþór Ingólfsson Melsteð. Glíma is a form of wrestling, thought to have originated with Vikings, that is...
- Icelandic Independence Party Pétur Eyþórsson (born 1978), glima champion, having won the glima grettisbelt multiple times Petur Gabrovski (1898–1947), Bulgarian...
- throwing, building and testing physical strength through wrestling (see glima), fist fighting, and stone lifting. In areas with mountains, mountain climbing...