Hnefatafl was the board game of the Viking Age, played across Scandinavia and the North Atlantic for centuries before chess arrived.An unfair game on purposeThe two sides are not equal and are not meant to be. One player has a king in the centre with a small guard and must escape to the edge; the other has twice as many pieces arranged around the rim and must trap him. It is a siege, not a battle, and each player is learning a completely different problem.Boards and pieces made by hand.
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Heated, hammered and ground by hand.
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Names, dates or Norse runes on most pieces.
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