Topic: Learning a 7th century game
Geckgo's photo
Wed 08/12/09 10:49 PM
Anyone heard of Hnefetafl or Hnefatafl (seen both spellings). It is a sweet board game that was played in and around the north sea before the introduction of chess into that area, sweet game. Irish, Scotts?

MirrorMirror's photo
Wed 08/12/09 11:21 PM

Anyone heard of Hnefetafl or Hnefatafl (seen both spellings). It is a sweet board game that was played in and around the north sea before the introduction of chess into that area, sweet game. Irish, Scotts?
:smile: I don't recall hearing of that before:smile:

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Wed 08/12/09 11:25 PM
I have heard of it, but never played it

http://www.regia.org/games.htm

michiganman3's photo
Wed 08/12/09 11:56 PM
Probably like eating Hagis

Geckgo's photo
Thu 08/13/09 12:07 AM

I have heard of it, but never played it

http://www.regia.org/games.htm


Thanks for the link. I discovered the game while doing research for my upcomming comicbook. I've been investigating it and made myself a nice looking board (from stone tiling) and am using colored candle beads as the pieces.