- Tafl
games (pronounced [tavl]), also
known as
hnefatafl games, are a
family of
ancient Northern European strategy board games pla**** on a
checkered or...
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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...
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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...
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publisher The
Cunning Artificer. It
resembles ancient Norse games such as
Hnefatafl, and
involves two
unequal sides,
Trolls and
Dwarves with
different moves...
- to date back to at
least 144 AD.
Scandnavia The
ancient Norse game of
hnefatafl was
developed sometime before 400 AD.
United Kingdom In the
United Kingdom...
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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...
- 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...
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illustrations including matter from the
Sigurd legends. One
shows two men
playing Hnefatafl, a form of the
boardgame called tafl. The name Svarthǫfði in the inscription...
