Category: Jeu Tradi Normandie

FJSTNV Championnat Choule Crosse Normande 2019

Jeux Tradi Normandie Logo [Reference: 1]

Classement

TeamPtsViquets
Choule Hâot Cotentin64116
Val De Risle- la chouque3557
Exo Nourmaundie Choule3440
Choule Hâot Cotentin 22041
1066 CAEN46
Choule en Caux38
FJSTNV Championnat Choule Crosse Normande 2019 [Reference: 2]

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.

Choule match at Crosse in Normandy [Reference: 5][Picture Credit: Fédération de Jeux et Sports Traditionnels Normande et Vikings]

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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Last Updated: 23 October 2020

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