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Entertainemnt based on doing things with horses is nothing new. In the Viking world, a common sport or form of entertainment for spectators was horse-fighting. It was indeed a fact that a whole betting market was developed around this.

Many different cultures around the world had forms of entertainment in which animals were urged to fight in some way or another. So, we find cocks, dogs, bulls, lions, and many other animals. Today, these practices are frowned by many and have been deemed cruel against animals and therefore illegal in many jurisdictions, but they still exist, albeit in dwindling numbers.

It is however, rare that highly valuable and relatively scarce animals like horses were actually used for fighting, but it is possible to trace the roots of such practice to ancient pagan cults from Scandinavia, in which horses had a special place.

Another explanation for the existence of such a form of entertainment would be that the horses used in these fights were in one way or another going to be slaughtered because they were old or ill, or of no more use for local communities.

Perhaps they could not be sold or bartered, or even the harsh subpolar winter may have played a role: without good harvests horses could not be maintained during the winter.In other words, these games may have been a way to downsize local farms.

There were variants for these games, although generally, horses were forced to fight by men who prodded them with sharp sears, swords or other weapons.

In some occasions, even sharp point or horns were attached to the horses, according to historical and archaeological evidence, like what can can be seen in stones carved in Häggeby, Sweden.

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