hist-games: RE: hist-games-digest V1 #188

[Mattila Johannes]

I can help you with swedish, althou I suspect the french terms would have
been used in period. 
Swedish: Spader(spades), klöver(clubs), hjärter(hearts), ruter(diamonds)
kung(king), dam(queen), kneckt(Knave) & ess(ace).

In service
Ld. Steinar Vidfamne
Of the Clan McCullen
Frostheim, Nordmark.
Mundanely Johannes Mattila 

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> hist-games-digest        Sunday, 12 September 1999     Volume 
> 01 : Number 188
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> From: Thierry Depaulis <thierry.depaulis at freesbee.fr>
> Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 10:05:18 +0200
> Subject: Re: hist-games: Translations
> 
> On Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:37:59 -0700
> 
> Matthew Whitaker wrote:
> 
> >I'm looking for translations of  the French/English card suits (now,
> >"international") mostly in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, 
> but also in
> >Irish, and medieval/renaissance Latin.  I've already got 
> them in French
> >and German.
> 
> Italian: picche, fiori, cuori, quadri (so they're straight 
> translations
> from the French)
> Spanish: picas, tr=E9boles, corazones, cuadros (same thing)
> Portuguese: espadas (spades), paus (clubs), copas (hearts), 
> oiros (diamonds)
> Renaissance Latin (J.L. Vives): vomerculi or palae or spicula (all for
> spades), trifolia, corda, rhombuli
> 
> >Also, if someone out there is as crazy as I am and wants to tackle a
> >conceptual translation for Anglo-Saxon and Norse, that'd be 
> cool, too.
> 
> =46orget it! These languages were already extinct when 
> playing cards arrived
> in Europe (late 14th century).
> 
> >But wait!  There's more!  I'm also looking for translations for the
> >following words in (Old) Norse:
> See previous comment.
> 
> Thierry Depaulis
> 
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