Editing Sheepshead (card game) (section)

==Etymology==
Schafkopf literally means "sheep's head" and may refer to the practice going back over a century of recording the score by drawing a stylised head of a sheep with nine lines.<ref>von Alvensleben, L. (1853). Encyclopädie der Spiele. Otto Wigand, Leipzig, p. 465</ref> However, some sources argue that the term was probably derived and translated incorrectly from [[Middle High German]] and referred to playing cards on a barrel head (from ''kopf'', meaning head, and ''Schaff'', meaning a barrel).<ref name="Bayerisch Schaffkopfen">Wolfgang Peschel: ''Bayerisch Schaffkopfen - Wissenswertes, Humoriges; mit den offiziellen Regeln des Bayerischen Schaffkopf-Vereins.'' {{ISBN|3-924012-31-8}}</ref>