On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 12:00:18PM -0500, Karen Thomas wrote: > >>>> originally yes, i think, but we have gudmar as an example from holar. > does anyone else have any holar-trained farrier work to point to in > particular? > > Check the archives. It's full.
then i must not be looking in the right place; the search "holar farrier*" turned up only this thread and one single note from kvedja malin saying that icelanders go abroad to become fully-qualified farriers. "holar shoe*" found this entire thread (obviously), judy just saying shoeing isn't taught at holar, a thread on "high action tolt" where i couldn't find holar at all and one on "breeding non gaited iceys" that was the same. can you point me at some other search terms or article #'s? > And what about the long list of articles > that Kim quickly dug up and referenced yesterday? Many of those "gems" were > written by Holar graduates I think. how would i know which? > And, yes to Judy's question. I DO remember the young American who went to > Iceland a couple of years ago, and came back calling himself a "master > farrier" when it was well-known he'd never ridden a horse just a few months > before. well, that's just fraud. we occasionally have problems with similar matters at my university, with people claiming affiliations and qualifications they have not got. it is shameful, but i think that reflects on the perpetrator and not the organization. if holar doesn't claim to award "master farrier" standing (and gudmar certainly never claimed mastership to me -- he just seems to shoe his own horses, and ingvar's message i found seems to say otherwise) then any person as you describe this american is obviously a liar. > In Iceland, "farriery" seems to center around training. why do you say this? it seems that kvedja's comment in msg #69482 says the opposite, that icelanders go to europe and "practice for many years abroad". (although the same note implies that anyone can act as a farrier; it is not a licensed occupation necessarily, and i imagine many people at least trim their horses' feet themselves; i've seen this in the states as well.) --vicka
