TAPIOBICSKE, Hungary (Reuters) - Some 40 Hungarian husbands, with their wives on their backs, clambered over rough terrain on Saturday in the nation's second wife-carrying contest. Guraly began preparations in January for the contest, which is said to have origins dating back to the Viking age. Estonian races have lent their name to the Estonian style of wife-carrying, with the wife upside down and her feet over her husband's shoulders, rather than a classic piggyback. "We devised a strategy, figuring out the best way of carrying my wife on my back," Mark Mazacs said. (Reporting by Krisztina Fenyo; writing by Krisztina Than; editing by Barbara Lewis)


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August 07, 2021 14:26 UTC