Huizinga 1955, p. 109. Details of the contest are not easy to come by. Just after the fall of Troy, Mopsos meets Chalcas. Chalcas points to a fig tree and asks him: How many figs are there on that fig tree over there? Mopsos answers 9; Chalcas say 8. Chalcas is wrong and drops dead on the spot. Symboles, mythes et légendes. Archived 29 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Date of last access 10 September 2008.
Huizinga acknowledges the assistance of Professor DuyvendakArchived 18 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine's "friendly help [which allows him] to say something about
the Chinese expressions for the play-function". Huizinga 1955, p. 32.
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Huizinga, Johan (1944). "Homo Ludens"(PDF). art.yale.edu. Switzerland: Routledge. Archived from the original(PDF) on 28 March 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
Huizinga acknowledges the assistance of Professor DuyvendakArchived 18 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine's "friendly help [which allows him] to say something about
the Chinese expressions for the play-function". Huizinga 1955, p. 32.
Huizinga 1955, p. 109. Details of the contest are not easy to come by. Just after the fall of Troy, Mopsos meets Chalcas. Chalcas points to a fig tree and asks him: How many figs are there on that fig tree over there? Mopsos answers 9; Chalcas say 8. Chalcas is wrong and drops dead on the spot. Symboles, mythes et légendes. Archived 29 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Date of last access 10 September 2008.
Huizinga, Johan (1944). "Homo Ludens"(PDF). art.yale.edu. Switzerland: Routledge. pp. ix. Archived from the original(PDF) on 28 March 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
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The information on the Blackfoot language used by Huizinga comes from Professor Christianus Cornelis Uhlenbeck. Huizinga 1955, p. 33. See the book Montana 1911: A Professor and his Wife among the Blackfeet for further details behind this contribution of the Blackfoot Indian language to Homo Ludens.
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Huizinga, Johan (1944). "Homo Ludens"(PDF). art.yale.edu. Switzerland: Routledge. Archived from the original(PDF) on 28 March 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
Huizinga, Johan (1944). "Homo Ludens"(PDF). art.yale.edu. Switzerland: Routledge. pp. ix. Archived from the original(PDF) on 28 March 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2014.