Norwegian Sweater Fighting

I have to apologise for the series of planned posts that didn't materialise, owing to a combination of illness, indexing and the fact that the combination of illness and indexing isn't allowing me the time or mental energy to actually knit. Sigh.

As a peace-offering: Norwegian Sweater Fighting. Othar's Twitter is an entertaining little bagatelle purporting to chronicle the exploits of Othar, a Spark and gentleman adventurer from the Girl Genius web comic (pseudo-Victorian Mad Science!). The last couple of entries charmed me utterly by randomly inventing Norwegian Sweater Fighting, which handily defeats the odd white lady resurrected in the lab, who "knows not the way of the målet and is helpless against a true Genser Hersker". I'm seeing this latter as a particularly convoluted sort of wrestling hold, with the opponent tied in complicated and decorative knots.