Hnefatafl - Das Wikinger Spiel

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The Viking Game must rank as one of historys greatest board games. It was at its most popular during the Dark Ages in Northern Europe, a period of scant records and shifting populations. Like so much of the Dark Ages, our knowledge of Hnefatafl (sometimes abbreviated to tafl) is patchy a mystery now half solved as a result of archaeological research. Our Hnefatafl game pieces are based on designs inspired by the famous Lewis chess pieces.

The Hnefatafl Game was popular in the Viking homelands in Scandinavia as early as AD400 and was carried by the Vikings to the lands they conquered. Over the centuries the game developed and different versions of the board have been found by archaeologists in sites from Ireland to Ukraine.

Occasionally referred to in manuscripts, the game was known as Hnefatafl which means literally Kings table. The study of these manuscripts and examination of the various types of board and pieces has enabled researchers to work out how the game was