Maine Highland Games 2023
Felicia Baltren throws WOB - Home Games 2023
Team Highlander 2023
Maine Highland Games 2023
Unique Approach
Integrity
Community
Supporting, hosting, organizing, and promoting Celtic strength is our focus. We bridge the gap between the old and the new, providing nostalgia for the elders and core memories for the youth.
Our team holds heavy athletics and its culture near and dear. We provide a safe and equal environment where athletes from all backgrounds participate and have a blast while doing so.
To us community is greater than competition. Community is the essence of what we do. Highland Games is a healthy and active way to connect to the past while making the most of the present.
No Strength without unity
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2024 Logo Design
Designed by our Master Designer Dave Swanson, this year's logo incorporates the two cultures of the Celts and the Norse.
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Odin, the one-eyed All-Father, sacrificed his eye in order to gain true wisdom and vision of the world. He is the symbol of war, victory, wisdom, sorcery & mysticism, literature, the written letters or runes, wrath/frenzy, and death among other things. Perhaps most recently he is known most notably as the Father of Thor. The lightning scar over his right eye is a symbol of that sacrifice and victory. The Green Man is a Celtic symbol for the cycle of life, death and re-birth, as well as nature, often paired with the Oak Tree. The symbol of godhood - or divinity - within the masculine and its relationship with the transcendent life force - Goddess or the feminine expression of divinity.
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Flanked on either side of our Champion are the two Ravens: Hunginn and Munnin, respectively "thought" and "memory/mind", used to bring information to and act as messengers for Odin.
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In 2024 we wish to unite together our Celtic and neighboring Norse cultures, bringing out the best in us as people and a community of strength.
2025 Logo Design
Designed by our Master Designer Dave Swanson, the 2025 logo continues with the theme of incorporating the two cultures of the Celts and the Norse.
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Bridget / Brigid, the Celtic Goddess, renowned amongst the Celts as a beacon for healing, compassion, the arts, fertility, smithing, and alchemical fire. Her tree is the Oak, and trademark the open flame with flowing hair. This image is bridged with the Norse Goddess, Freya. Her being a symbol of battle, the journey of death, love, beauty, mysticism, and travel. Her tools are said to be the cloak of falcon feathers, flowers especially the daisy, and divine armor. Our heroine is connected to and surrounded by Mother Earth, with her roots digging deep and providing life and beauty to all within her womb. She is crowned, wielding a shield as a shieldmaiden from the Norse tradition, armed, and ready for battle.
These archetypes and role models exhibit the core values we uphold in the polarity / expression of the feminine, on and off the field. Of which we have seen the female athletes emulate so powerfully.
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In 2025 we wish to continue to unite together our Celtic and neighboring Norse cultures, bringing out the best in us as people and a community of strength.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
Droughtlander Diaries Podcast
NFG is the most rugged Highland Games organization in the sport - bringing back history and tradition through heavy athletics.
Cerberus Strength USA
NFG follows the same principles of community we do at Cerberus USA. Whenever they bring people together in strength it's always an incredible time.
Maine Highland Games
Working with NFG for the Maine Highland Games has been an absolute pleasure. Their passion, dedication to the sport, and professionalism is a breath of fresh air.
