Thorsteinn Einarsson - Glima_the-Icelandic-Wrestling

Original PDF file of document presented to the International Olympic Committee in 1984 by the Olympic committee of Iceland.

The document was written by Þorsteinn Einarsson, who was Iceland’s inspector for sports and traditional games between 1941 and 1981.

In this capacity, Einarsson had the resposibility to collect information from all over Iceland regarding the country's history of sport.

Over the course of his 40 year career, Einarsson documented the history of glima in Iceland, and wrote a document about the different forms of glima in "Glima the Icelandic wrestling".