The Knife-Thrower’s Target
When I was a wee boy I saw a Viking movie that featured (during the obligatory carousing in the mead hall scene) a captured blonde woman being shorn of her blonde blades in an axe-throwing contest between drunken Vikings. No doubt that was alarming to her!
When I saw this pillory/woman/hair/target detail from the cover of Sadists Carry Knives by John Slater, it reminded me of that long-forgotten competition with axes:
Illustration is another Col Cameron gem.
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I imagine the movie was “The Vikings” starring Kirk Douglas. The woman was actually a wife of one of the vikings who was accused of being unfaithful, the ‘test’ for this was having the husband toss axes at her till all three braids were cut off. If she survived, then she must have been faithful. The husband was three sheets to the wind, so Kirk Douglas, being the ‘hero’ of the movie, steps in to save the woman with his ‘manly’ axe throwing.
Here’s the clip. http://movieclips.com/hT9m-the-vikings-movie-odins-test-for-unfaithful-wives/
Yeah, that’s the one. My memory of non-essential details had clearly degraded over time. Thanks!