ABSTRACT

This article uses curling to explore the relationship between Scotland and Sweden during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A long-term formal and (after the Union of 1707) informal relationship existed between the nations, particularly with regard to the Thirty Years’ War and Jacobitism, both of which established a Scottish presence in Gothenburg. Curling entered Sweden through this pipeline in the early- to mid-nineteenth century, with Sweden's first known club, Bohuslän Curling Club (Bohuslänska Curlingklubben), formed at Uddevalla in 1852 by the Thorburn-Macfie family and associates; the family ran an industrial concern selling oats for horses powering London's expanding transport network. Curling remained confined to Uddevalla until the first Nordic Games (Nordiska Spelen) in 1901, whereby the sport became part of a programme emphasising elite ideas of sport. Later iterations of the Games would feature Scottish curlers. In the 1920s and 1930s, semi-regular trips were also arranged between Scotland and Sweden by the Royal Caledonian Curling Club (RCCC) and the Swedish Curling Union (Svensk Curlingförbundet); here, while the game was placed within a contemporary royalist, martial, and racial context by RCCC and public officials, reference points recalled the pre-Union relationship between the two nations as pertained to the Thirty Years’ War.

摘要

本文用冰壶来探讨十九、二十世纪苏格兰与瑞典的关系。国家之间存在长期的正式和（在 1707 年联邦之后）非正式的关系，特别是在三十年战争和雅各布主义方面，两者都在哥德堡建立了苏格兰的存在。冰壶在 19 世纪早期至中期通过这条管道进入瑞典，瑞典第一家知名俱乐部 Bohuslän Curling Club ( Bohuslänska Curlingklubben ) 于 1852 年由 Thorburn-Macfie 家族和同事在 Uddevalla 成立；这个家族经营着一家工业公司，为马匹出售燕麦，为伦敦不断扩大的交通网络提供动力。直到第一届北欧运动会（Nordiska Spelen) 在 1901 年，这项运动成为强调精英运动理念的计划的一部分。比赛的后期迭代将采用苏格兰卷发器。在1920年代和1930年代，皇家喀里多尼亚冰壶俱乐部（RCCC）和瑞典冰壶联盟（Svensk Curlingförbundet）也安排了苏格兰和瑞典之间的半定期旅行；在这里，虽然 RCCC 和公职人员将游戏置于当代保皇主义、军事和种族背景下，但参考点让人想起了与三十年战争有关的两国在联盟前的关系。