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[cf. Irish búan, good; lasting]

Name for a board-game whose rules are lost to modern readers, perhaps comparable to fidchell or brandub.

Bibliography

  • Eóin MacWhite, “‘Early Irish Board Games’”, Éigse, 5 (1945), 25–35

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