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Brús is a traditional Icelandic card game for four-players using French-suited cards. It is descended via German Brusbart from Karnöffel, Europe's oldest known card game.
Brús is described as an old Icelandic game, but its rules and terminology suggest that it is descended from the centuries-old German game of Brusbart, now known as Bruus, which was once the national game of Hamburg and which spread across most of northern Europe spawning a family of games such as Russian Bruzbart, Polish Drużbart, Swedish Bräus, Greenlandic Voormsi and others. Brusbart in turn is descended from Karnöffel, the oldest card game in Europe with a continuous tradition of play down to the present day, a fact testified to by "the wildly disturbed ranking order in the chosen suit and particularly by the special role of the chosen Seven".
The folklore historian, Ólafur Davíðsson, wrote about Icelandic entertainment and published it in the years 1888–1892. There he mentions this game and it is described again in the writings of folklore historians, Ólafur and Jón Árnason, called Íslenzkar gátur, skemtanir, vikivakar og þulur ( " Icelandic Puzzles, Games, Weekends and Rhymes.")
In Iceland, the game has long been popular in Svarfaðardalur and its neighbouring villages, but is less well known elsewhere in the country.
Brús is a four-hand game played as two teams of two with the partners sitting opposite each other. Its rules are in many ways peculiar and scoring is based on a so-called 'comb' - a figure that comprises a series of parallel lines divided at right angles down the middle by a longer line. The aim is to take as many tricks as possible.
Brús is an unusual card game in that not all of the cards in the pack are used and the game values are different from normal. The Twists (Twos), Threes, Fours and Fives are removed from the pack, leaving 36 cards. There are three matadors which are the highest cards: the , and (called Brúnka = the "Brown One"), followed by the other 'beaters', the Nines, Aces, Jacks and Sixes in suit order. The Sixes are known as postmen, but this is probably a corruption of "pope", since they were historically known in Brusbart as popes.
The remaining cards - Kings, Queens, Tens, Eights and Sevens - are worthless cards or duds (with the exception of those that are matadors) and can only win a trick if led to a trick that contains four duds.
The dealer shuffles and the player to his right cuts. If, in cutting, the or come up, the opponents score a point. Three cards are then dealt clockwise to each player and the rest of the pack placed face down on the table as the bunkan ("stock")
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Brús
Brús is a traditional Icelandic card game for four-players using French-suited cards. It is descended via German Brusbart from Karnöffel, Europe's oldest known card game.
Brús is described as an old Icelandic game, but its rules and terminology suggest that it is descended from the centuries-old German game of Brusbart, now known as Bruus, which was once the national game of Hamburg and which spread across most of northern Europe spawning a family of games such as Russian Bruzbart, Polish Drużbart, Swedish Bräus, Greenlandic Voormsi and others. Brusbart in turn is descended from Karnöffel, the oldest card game in Europe with a continuous tradition of play down to the present day, a fact testified to by "the wildly disturbed ranking order in the chosen suit and particularly by the special role of the chosen Seven".
The folklore historian, Ólafur Davíðsson, wrote about Icelandic entertainment and published it in the years 1888–1892. There he mentions this game and it is described again in the writings of folklore historians, Ólafur and Jón Árnason, called Íslenzkar gátur, skemtanir, vikivakar og þulur ( " Icelandic Puzzles, Games, Weekends and Rhymes.")
In Iceland, the game has long been popular in Svarfaðardalur and its neighbouring villages, but is less well known elsewhere in the country.
Brús is a four-hand game played as two teams of two with the partners sitting opposite each other. Its rules are in many ways peculiar and scoring is based on a so-called 'comb' - a figure that comprises a series of parallel lines divided at right angles down the middle by a longer line. The aim is to take as many tricks as possible.
Brús is an unusual card game in that not all of the cards in the pack are used and the game values are different from normal. The Twists (Twos), Threes, Fours and Fives are removed from the pack, leaving 36 cards. There are three matadors which are the highest cards: the , and (called Brúnka = the "Brown One"), followed by the other 'beaters', the Nines, Aces, Jacks and Sixes in suit order. The Sixes are known as postmen, but this is probably a corruption of "pope", since they were historically known in Brusbart as popes.
The remaining cards - Kings, Queens, Tens, Eights and Sevens - are worthless cards or duds (with the exception of those that are matadors) and can only win a trick if led to a trick that contains four duds.
The dealer shuffles and the player to his right cuts. If, in cutting, the or come up, the opponents score a point. Three cards are then dealt clockwise to each player and the rest of the pack placed face down on the table as the bunkan ("stock")
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