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Ancient Wrestling

Ancient Wrestling.jpg Ancient WrestlingThumbnailsAncient Wood-block Print, cut in Flanders before 1440, representing Jesus Christ after his FlagellationAncient WrestlingThumbnailsAncient Wood-block Print, cut in Flanders before 1440, representing Jesus Christ after his FlagellationAncient WrestlingThumbnailsAncient Wood-block Print, cut in Flanders before 1440, representing Jesus Christ after his FlagellationAncient WrestlingThumbnailsAncient Wood-block Print, cut in Flanders before 1440, representing Jesus Christ after his FlagellationAncient WrestlingThumbnailsAncient Wood-block Print, cut in Flanders before 1440, representing Jesus Christ after his Flagellation

Other rewards, no doubt, were sometimes proposed, as we may see upon the engraving below, where two men are wrestling for a cock: the original drawing, from a manuscript in the Royal Library, is certainly more ancient than the time of Chaucer.