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"Presents the secret sport of Iceland called 'Glima' and some of its marvelous tricks of self-defense which is nothing more than fighting and wrestling with the legs and feet."
"One of the Icelanders in native costume, presumably Josefsson himself from his prominence, makes an announcement in 'one,' taking up three minutes." He states that "the Icelanders first exhibited this style of 'secret sport' in 1908, at the Olympian Games in England."
"The Glima defence against the boxer was interesting, through the marvelous usage of the legs and feet by Josefsson against a negro boxer. There were also Glima tricks against a man armed with knives, from attacks from the front and behind, defense against a man with a revolver, and against three men at the same time."
"It's worth seeing once."
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Variety (33:10), February 1914