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Brännboll

Also known as burnball

Brännboll: photograph by EditorInTheRye
Photo: EditorInTheRye, CC BY-SA 3.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

A bat-and-ball game where batters run around four bases and fielders tag or catch them.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Sweden.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Deep Past and First Games (before about 3000 BCE), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of Northern and Eastern Europe.

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