Husafell Stoneとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Husafell Stone, is a legendary lifting stone located in Husafell, Iceland. The stone weighs roughly 418 lbs., and is kept near a goat pen built by pastor Snorri Bjornsson over two hundred years ago. The stone has been used as a test of strength by either simply lifting the stone, or by lifting and carrying the stone around the goat pen where it is located. The Husafell Stone is also named Kviahellan (pen slab) by pastor Snorri, who used the stone as a door to his sheep pen. The test to achieve "fullsterker" status is to lift the stone up and carry it the 50 meters around the perimeter of the goat pen. Successfully walking the full distance around the pen is considered a widely recognized feat of strength in the field of stone carrying, and is referred to as achieving "fullsterkur" (full-strong) status. Fullsterkur status refers to the weight of the actual stone, for this status the stone must weigh a minimum of 341 lbs., hálfsterkur ("half strength") stones weigh up to 228.8 lbs., hálfdrættingur ("weakling") stone up to 107.8 lbs. and amlóði ("useless") stone up to 50.6 lbs. Men have lifted the Husafell stone to different heights and attempted to carry the stone as a test of strength for hundreds of years. When the event was featured at the 1992 World's Strongest Man competition when it was held in Iceland using the actual Husafell Stone, it proved to be a very popular and influential event in the sport of strongman. Canadian strongman Gregg Ernst set a world record at the 1992 WSM by carrying the Husafell Stone 70 meters. In recent years, replicas are created (of varying weights and sizes) and used in events at strongman competitions all over the world.