. Ski-running . Fig. 2 —Skrid-Finner Imnting (Olaus Magnus, ca. ).. Fig. 3.—Skrid-Finner (Olana Magnus, c«. 1550). Lapps, appear, if one is to judge from old illustrations from thesixteenth centuiy (Figs. 2 and 3), to have been veritable shoes,the feet being placed in a hole made for the jDurpose at the The Origin and History of Ski. heel of the ski. They are thus depicted as elongated (some3it. long) sabots. There is, however, no reason for assuiTiingthese sabot skis, to have been the/ orig;inal form, for theywere, at best, but a hybrid type of ingenious construction,possibly only used b
. Ski-running . Fig. 2 —Skrid-Finner Imnting (Olaus Magnus, ca. ).. Fig. 3.—Skrid-Finner (Olana Magnus, c«. 1550). Lapps, appear, if one is to judge from old illustrations from thesixteenth centuiy (Figs. 2 and 3), to have been veritable shoes,the feet being placed in a hole made for the jDurpose at the The Origin and History of Ski. heel of the ski. They are thus depicted as elongated (some3it. long) sabots. There is, however, no reason for assuiTiingthese sabot skis, to have been the/ orig;inal form, for theywere, at best, but a hybrid type of ingenious construction,possibly only used by the inhabitants of certain districts. Thetrue Lapps ski, on the other hand, were comparatively shortand broad, attached to the feet, by toe straps and thongsi, andcovered with the skins of reindeer calves for the puri^ose ofletting them glide easily without accumulating snow on thesoles, of keeping the wood from splitting or fraying, andbecause, when thus covered, it was easier to ascend the slopesof the hills, the hairs which lay fore and aft, checking thetenden
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