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Bidding stick, the Glossary

A bidding stick (sometimes also referred to as a budstikke,Simon, Jeffrey. 1988. NATO-Warsaw Pact Force Mobilization. Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, p. 520. war arrow, or stembod) is a term for a wooden object, such as a club or baton, carried by a messenger and used by Northern Europeans, for example in Scotland and Scandinavia, to rally people for ''things'' (assemblies) and for defence or rebellion.^[1]

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Arne Martin Klausen

Arne Martin Klausen (19 December 1927 – 15 June 2018) was a Norwegian social anthropologist.

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Axe

An axe (sometimes ax in American English; see spelling differences) is an implement that has been used for millennia to shape, split, and cut wood, to harvest timber, as a weapon, and as a ceremonial or heraldic symbol.

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Blasphemy

Blasphemy refers to an insult that shows contempt, disrespect or lack of reverence concerning a deity, an object considered sacred, or something considered inviolable.

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Breadalbane, Scotland

Breadalbane (Bràghaid Albann, meaning "upper Alba" or "upland of Alba") is a region of the southern/central Scottish Highlands, within the Grampian Mountains range.

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Bremanger Budstikke

Bremanger Budstikke (The Bremanger Bidding Stick) is a local Norwegian newspaper published in Svelgen in Vestland county.

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Budstikka

Budstikka (The Bidding Stick), prior to 2004 known as Asker og Bærum Budstikke, is a daily local newspaper published out of Billingstad in Asker, Norway.

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Budstikken

Budstikken (The Bidding Stick) was a Norwegian newspaper.

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Clan Grant

Clan Grant is a Highland Scottish clan, with one main branch, Grant of Grant, and several cadet branches, such as Grant of Glenmoriston.

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Criminal Code of Finland

The criminal code of Finland (rikoslaki, strafflag) is the codification of the central legal source concerning criminal law in Finland.

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Cross burning

In modern times, cross burning or cross lighting is a practice which is associated with the Ku Klux Klan.

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Dalecarlian rebellion (1743)

The Dalecarlian rebellion of 1743, also known as the Fourth Dalecarlian rebellion and stora daldansen (the great Dalecarlian dance) was a rebellion that broke out in the Swedish province of Dalarna in 1743.

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Edward Dwelly

Edward Dwelly (1864–1939) was an English lexicographer and genealogist.

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Elgin, Moray

Elgin (Ailgin; Eilginn) is a historic town (former cathedral city) and formerly a royal burgh in Moray, Scotland.

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Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.

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Finland Swedish

Finland Swedish or Fenno-Swedish (finlandssvenska; suomenruotsi) is a variety of the Swedish language and a closely related group of Swedish dialects spoken in Finland by the Swedish-speaking population, commonly also referred to as Finland Swedes, as their first language.

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Governor

A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of a state's official representative.

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Grampian Television

Grampian Television was the original name of the Channel 3 service for the north of Scotland founded in 1961 and now named STV.

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Hansard

Hansard is the transcripts of parliamentary debates in Britain and many Commonwealth countries.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network.

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Jacobite rising of 1715

The Jacobite rising of 1715 (Bliadhna Sheumais; or 'the Fifteen') was the attempt by James Edward Stuart (the Old Pretender) to regain the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland for the exiled Stuarts.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Olaus Magnus

Olaus Magnus (born Olof Månsson; October 1490 – 1 August 1557) was a Swedish writer, cartographer, and Catholic clergyman.

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Old Swedish

Old Swedish (Modern Swedish: fornsvenska) is the name for two distinct stages of the Swedish language that were spoken in the Middle Ages: Early Old Swedish (Klassisk fornsvenska), spoken from about 1225 until about 1375, and Late Old Swedish (Yngre fornsvenska), spoken from about 1375 until about 1526.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidding_stick

Also known as Budstikke, Crann Tara, Fiery Cross, Fiery cross (bidding stick), Lit cross.

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