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Hnefatafl - the Strategic Board Game of the Vikings A game information page . Detailed rules and history of a Chess-like game played for 100's of years in Northern Europe.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
MARGARET A wrote on Thu, Oct 31, 2002 09:15 PM UTC:Good ★★★★
Unusual pieces have been found in an old chess set belonging to greatgrandfather. A rook plus a bishop, a rook plus a knight - also nine pawns per side. Could this be a variant game.

Charles Gilman wrote on Wed, Aug 18, 2004 07:16 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
Hnefatafl pieces have been found in two places associated with Lewis Carroll: jet ones in Warrington, place of his birth and childhood, and bone ones in Oxfordshire, where he spent his working life.

Anonymous wrote on Tue, Mar 30, 2010 03:05 PM UTC:
Link is broken. You can read about it and related games here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafl
By the way, is there modern variants with equal armies? It would be
interesting.

M Winther wrote on Wed, Mar 31, 2010 07:24 AM UTC:
Please link to my article on Hnefatafl (Tablut) instead. 
http://hem.passagen.se/melki9/tablut.htm
The Zillions implementation follows the rules researched by the Historical 
Museum, Stockholm.
/Mats

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