Classement
Team | Pts | Viquets |
Choule Hâot Cotentin | 64 | 116 |
Val De Risle- la chouque | 35 | 57 |
Exo Nourmaundie Choule | 34 | 40 |
Choule Hâot Cotentin 2 | 20 | 41 |
1066 CAEN | 4 | 6 |
Choule en Caux | 3 | 8 |
Report
Choule Hâot Cotentin won the Championnat Choule Crosse Normande 2019 with 64 Points. It is interesting to note a team called 1066 CAEN, 1066 A.D. being the year the Normans invaded Britain, an event commemorated in the Bayeux Tapestry.
About
The Fédération de Jeux et Sports Traditionnels Normande et Vikings runs competitons in the Traditional Sports of Normandy (North France) and the Vikings who settled there.
From Wikipedia: “La soule, later choule or sioule, is a traditional team sport that originated in Normandy and Picardy. The ball, called a soule, could be solid or hollow and made of either wood or leather. Leather balls would be filled with hay, bran, horse hair or moss.”
References
[1] Fédération de Jeux et Sports Traditionnels Normande et Vikings (2014) logotradinormandiedetoure [Internet] Available from: https://jeuxtradinormandie.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/logotradinormandiedetoure.png [Accessed 23 October 2020]
[2] Fédération de Jeux et Sports Traditionnels Normande et Vikings (2020) Councours/Championnats (challenges et contest) [CHAMPIONNAT CHOULE CROSSE NORMANDE 2019] [Internet] Available from: http://jeuxtradinormandie.fr/ [Accessed 23 October 2020]
[3] Fédération de Jeux et Sports Traditionnels Normande et Vikings (2020) DESCRIPTIF DES JEUX [Internet] Available from: http://jeuxtradinormandie.fr/ [Accessed 23 October 2020]
[4] Wikipedia (2020) La Soule [Internet] Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_soule [Accessed 23 October 2020]
Images
[5] Fédération de Jeux et Sports Traditionnels Normande et Vikings (2020) 11181806_668958876542486_2900937163927614507_n [Internet] Available from: https://jeuxtradinormandie.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/11181806_668958876542486_2900937163927614507_n.jpg?w=341&h=256 [Accessed 23 October 2020]
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Dervla Mulcahy & Nora Mulcahy
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Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the
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