- Tafl
games (pronounced [tavl]), also
known as
hnefatafl games, are a
family of
ancient Northern European strategy board games pla**** on a
checkered or...
- pachisi),
space games (such as
noughts and crosses),
chase games (such as
hnefatafl), and
games of
displacement (such as chess).
Board games have been pla****...
-
characteristics of the tafl
games of the
Middle Ages, such as
hnefatafl. As in
hnefatafl, the game
features unevenly matched teams with
different objectives...
- pla****
several types of tafl games;
hnefatafl,
nitavl (nine men's morris) and the less
common kvatrutafl.
Hnefatafl was
probably the
oldest type of board...
- Game of the
Generals Gess
Grande Acedrex (Spanish chess)
Hexagonal chess Hnefatafl (Nordic chess-like game)
Hiashatar (Mongolian
chess variant) Hive (boardless...
-
survived into our time. Hence, all
modern versions of tafl (commonly
called "
Hnefatafl" and
marketed exclusively as "Norse" or "Viking" games) are
based on the...
-
publisher The
Cunning Artificer. It
resembles ancient Norse games such as
Hnefatafl, and
involves two
unequal sides,
Trolls and
Dwarves with
different moves...
- Eldjárn, who has
written that it
could be the
central piece from a set of
hnefatafl,
based on its
similarities to a
smaller whalebone figure discovered in...
- with
similar games of
Norse origin like
tawlbwrdd or tafl (also
called hnefatafl),
which involved a king in the
centre and
pieces in a 2:1 ratio. Evidence...
-
College ms. 122 (folio 5 verso),
attempts to give
scriptural meaning to a
hnefatafl variant, and,
though the
layout is unwieldy, its
proportions are also...
