Posted on 02/16/2019 3:55:17 AM PST by LibWhacker
Vikings hunting reindeer in Norway were once confounded by "reindeer cyclones"; a threatened herd would literally run circles around the fierce hunters, making it nearly impossible to target a single animal.
Filmmakers recently captured incredible aerial footage of one of these reindeer cyclones, which aired Feb. 13 on PBS in the documentary "Wild Way of the Vikings," a program about Vikings and the wilderness they inhabited around A.D. 1000. [Photos: Ancient Arrows from Reindeer Hunters Found in Norway]
One of the documentary's most striking scenes shows a re-enactment of a Viking hunt interspersed with real footage of reindeer herds. Reindeer were important to the Vikings for their meat, hides, antlers and bones, according to the film.
In the cyclone scene, a lone hunter (an actor playing a Viking) approaches the herd; he notches and releases an arrow. The footage that follows shows an actual herd of reindeer running in circles. As the swirling mass of bodies thunders along a circular path, an overhead camera reveals that the herd's momentum follows a spiral shape, drawing tightly toward the cyclone's "eye" at the center.
Faced with this spinning reindeer stampede, any predator wolf, bear or human would have a very tough time targeting and overpowering a single reindeer, making this a formidable defense strategy...
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Watched that movie a few times, excellent movie and story.
Well worth the time.
I bet there are many dead reindeer afterward from being trampled so the hunter has it easy.
And now we know what happened to grandma...
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Rudolph the Reindeer Cyclone.
My dad’s relatives looked like tall lanky eskimos!
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