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Tafl Games The games have been dated from about the 5th century AD through the 18th century and are still played in many places today. In fact, these and related games were and are played throughout most of Europe and as far east as India, China, and Japan. Variants of some of these games were also played by North American aboriginal tribes who came in contact with Spanish Conquistadors. www.gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca /VirtualExhibits/Vikings/Tafl/index.html   (256 words)

Medieval & Renaissance Games Board Games Studies is an academic journal devoted specifically to research into board games. The Games Guild of Ealdormere is an SCA guild dedicated to games. A variety of period games, mostly with Celtic-inspired artwork, are available from Rose and Pentagram Design, including inexpensive period-style cards and several printed-fabric board games. jducoeur.org /game-hist   (1991 words)

Tafl, Tablut, Fox and Geese family - Online Guide. History and Where to Buy. Games of the Tafl family are distinguished by the unequal size of the opposing forces. Tafl apparently developed into Hnefatafl (which literally translates as 'Kings Table'), which was played by the Saxons as well as other Northern Europeans on the same size board and which is mentioned in Icelandic sagas from the beginning of the fourteenth century. The first probable reference to an ancestor of the game is that of Hala-Tafl, the Fox Game which is mentioned in the Icelandic saga 'Grettis' which is believed to have been written after AD 1300 by a priest living in the North of the country. www.tradgames.org.uk /games/Tafl.htm   (762 words)

Fox games Information The Fox games are a category of board games where one player is the fox and tries to eat the geese/sheep, and the other player directs the geese/sheep and attempts to trap the fox, or reach a destination on the board. The game Halatafl is known from at least as early as the 14th century, and it is mentioned in Grettis saga, and it probably originated in Scandinavia, as a variant of Tafl. Like the original game, tafl, the objective is for the defender (sheep) to reach a certain destination on the board, the square of nine holes marked with red, and it is the attacker's (the foxes) objective to stop the defender from reaching it. www.bookrags.com /wiki/Fox_games   (566 words)

The History of Tabula Letum   (Site not responding. Last check: ) The rules of the game from this era are not known because all that anybody has been able to find are various boards, pieces, and cryptic comments in old literature. Tafl was known to be played by both men and women, and various versions of it existed in the various different countries. It is possible that this game is a descendant of the Ancient Greek game Penta Grammai or Petteia. www.earthgaming.com /tabula/history.html   (854 words)

Buy Tablut (Kings Table) The family of Tafl games is at least 1,500 years old and Tablut, this version of the game, is based upon a game found in Lapland in 1732. Games of the Tafl family are distinguished by the unequal size of the opposing forces. Tafl apparently developed into Hnefatafl (which literally translates as 'Kings Table'), which was played by the Saxons as well as other Northern Europeans on the same size board and which is mentioned in Icelandic sagas from the beginning of the fourteenth century. www.mastersgames.com /cat/board/tablut.htm   (405 words)

The Online Guide to Traditional Games - History and Useful Information A game played on a Billiards table in which the objective is to pot 15 red balls using the white ball. A pub game a metal ring dangling from the ceiling on a rope is swung onto a metal hook on the wall. A pub game that is the ancestor of Cricket. www.tradgames.org.uk /features/games-index.htm   (1446 words)

ANGLO-SAXON TÆFL BOARD GAME (tæfl, tafl, cyningtæfl, cyningtafl, hnefatafl, tavl) - B. Slade TÆFL The game known to the Saxons as Cyningtaefl ("King's Table") or simply Tæfl (pronounce to rhyme with 'gavel') is derived from a common Germanic Tafl -game, and this was apparently one of the few board games known to the Saxons prior to the introduction of chess. The game is played on a chequered board, the number of squares in vertical direction being odd and equal to the number of squares in horizontal direction, so that there is a distinct central square (board-sizes include 7×7, 11×11, 13×13, 15×15 and 19×19 squares). The game simulates a battle between two unequal forces, a weaker force in the centre of the board (typically fl or dark-coloured), surrounded and outnumbered by an attacking force (typically white or light-coloured) stationed on the perimeter of the board. www.heorot.dk /tafl   (1841 words)

Viking Answer Lady Webpage - King's Table: Game of the Noble Scandinavians However, the term tafl was most commonly used to refer to a game known as hnefa-tafl or "King's Table."[4] Hnefatafl was known in Scandinavia before 400 A.D. and was carried by the Vikings to their colonies in Iceland, Greenland, Britain, Ireland and Wales. Tafl was played on the intersections (as in Pente or Go), not on the squares, however most people I've played with in the Current Middle Ages have a difficult time with the board laid out this way. Tafl in all its variants is a simple game to learn, yet requiring skill, tactics and sharp wits to master. www.vikinganswerlady.com /games.shtml   (2111 words)

Tara Hill Designs - Games Tafl is one variation of hnefatafl, an ancient Viking siege game which dates back to the 5th. Valhalla is a game of both chance and strategy, in which the players overcome physical obstacles, attacks by their opponents and the whims of the Gods in order to reach a joyous afterlife in Odin’s hall - Valhalla. The game is loosely based on Senet, which originated in ancient Egypt and was adopted by the Greeks and later the Romans, until it may have made its way north into medieval Scandinavia. www.tarahill.com /tafl.html   (543 words)

Irminsul Ættir Archives - Tafl Tafl refers to a group of games played on a board that has an odd number of squares or spaces which results in a central square which a king-piece is placed on. Tafl games were popular and widely played in Europe by people of all classes prior to the introduction of Chess which eventually superseded it. Although essentially a Scandinavian game, versions of it are found in Ireland as Brandubh, where the central square is occupied by the King or Brann, which is played on a seven by seven grid, and which the Norse dubbed Kotungatafl or the Crofter's Game. www.irminsul.org /arc/002sg.html   (1304 words)

Hnefatafl The Saxons had their own variant, derived from a common Germanic Tafl game, which was apparently the only board game known to them prior to the introduction of Chess [7]. The game was sometimes played with dice (Tawlbyund, for example), which would either indicate the maximum distance a piece could move or whether the player could move at all or not (move on an odd roll, miss a turn on an even roll). Gaming pieces were often hemispherical and made of antler, amber, bone, clay, glass, horn, stone, jet, wood or even horses' teeth [10]. www.gamecabinet.com /history/Hnef.html   (4889 words)

Regia Anglorum - Games of the Viking and Anglo-Saxon Age The nature of the games played with dice are unknown, but simple games such as 'who can get the highest (or lowest) number were probably common (and are suggested by some of the sagas), as were games similar to 'liar dice' or 'yahtzee'. The word tafl (literally 'table') was used to describe a board game, with the pieces being referred to as toflur or hunn. This game is a development of the popular Roman game of duodecim scripta, also known as tabula or alea, which was also played in Germany and Scandinavia in the Roman Iron Age, where it appears to have been known as katrutafl. www.regia.org /games.htm   (3312 words)

The Tafl Games Seldom have I felt this idea to have greater application than in the tafl games, for they reflect a salient feature of warfare as it was practiced in northern Europe, prior to the 11th century. And so we come to the game tafl, which is a nearly perfect model of this sort of conflict. A modification of this game spread with the British to India, where during the Great Mutiny the game became known as "Officers and Sepoys". www.stmoroky.com /games/tablut/tafl.htm   (693 words)

Zillions of Games - Press Since the game’s adaptive AI “learns” rules that are created for it, it is possible to easily add new games to Zillions. Its good gaming fun for everyone and this isn't a game you'll play through and toss into a pile, simply because you'll have so many new things to add to it (for free!). A multitude of games, skillful AI and addicting play are a few of the characteristics of Zillions that should make it a hit with classic games lovers and with the casual gaming public. www.zillionsofgames.com /press.html   (2065 words)

[No title] A magnificent tafl board thought to have been manufactured on the Isle of Man was found in a crannog excavation in Ballinderry, West Meath, Ireland (fig 4). In the entry for 20 July 1732, Linnaeus described a game known among the Lapps as tablut, which is a derivative of hnefatafl: The Tablut board is marked out with 9 x 9 squares, the central one being distinctive and known as Konakis or throne. Period game pieces were carved in wood or ivory, made of glass, ceramics or gemstones, or even small rocks used for a game drawn in the dirt and then discarded at the end of play (fig 1). www.florilegium.org /files/NORSE/Norse-games-art.text   (2521 words)

Viking Tafl Games Donated to the Museum in 1992, the photograph at the left is the box (30 cm x 13.5 cm x 3.5 cm) for a playable commercial version of a tafl game. Tafl...was the older, and hnefatafl the later name of a board game which was already played by the Scandinavian peoples before A.D. It was carried by the Norsemen to Iceland, Britain, and Ireland, and spread to Wales. Included within the box is a printed sheet with a brief history of games of this type, and a set of instructions for playing the game. gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca /VirtualExhibits/Vikings/Tafl/viking/index.html   (342 words)

Hnefatafl: An Experimental Reconstruction An experimental reconstruction of this game was undertaken in an attempt to understand further the culture that produced it by understanding how at least part of their leisure time was spent. When the game is changed to require the king to play to the corner, we find that the odds are much more even with the attacker winning 9 of 17 games. One suggestion has been made that as this game appears to be the results of having a king trapped in his hall by attackers (a common Norse method of killing rulers) we treat the attackers starting positions as the "doors" to the hall. www.treheima.ca /viking/tafl.htm   (4737 words)

The Tafl Family of Games Some tafl boards have been found with ornate corners, leading scholars to believe that in some versions the King had to get to a corner to win. Some game historians actually think this was based on an older Roman game, and was not related to Tafl at all. Gerhand Kendal of Westmoreland, “Alquerque and Tafl Games,” The Compleat Anachronist #4: Indoor Games, Jan 1983, 27-31. www.pipcom.com /~colyne/Article/SCA_game_tafl.htm   (1165 words)

The Online Guide to Traditional Games Including Western board games favourites like Chess (descended from Shaturanga), Draughts (descended from Alquerque), the ancient Egyptian game of Nine Mens Morris and Backgammon (descended from Senat) and childrens favourites Snakes and Ladders, and Chinese Checkers (a modern version of Halma). Plus some unusual games like the ancient Norse game of Tafl, the Madagascan game of Fanorona and some really ancient games like the Royal games found at Ur. Table games including Carrom from Asia and the Billiards family through Snooker to the American and European derivatives, Bar Billiards, Bagatelle, Pool and Carom Billiards. www.tradgames.org.uk   (525 words)

Rose & Pentagram Wood Games These games were played by Norse cultures as early as 400 A.D., and were imported by the Vikings to Iceland, Britain, Ireland, and Wales. Unlike Chess, or Checkers which are fought by armies from opposite sides of the board, Tafl games involve a single king and his defenders in the center of the board surrounded by an army of attackers twice their number. The Backgammon game decorating this "recycled" table is inspired by a 4-player game "The Tables of the four Seasons" described in The Book of Games, a manuscript commissioned by Alphonso X of Spain in about 1280. historicgames.com /wood.html   (570 words)

Acorn Games's Brandubh Royal Celtic Chess Site The Ballinderry Game Board was found in 1932 during the excavation of a "crannog", or lake dwelling at Ballinderry, West Meath, Ireland. The game boards are all hand drawn on leather and suede with Ancient Celtic symbols used for the placement marks. This game will bring you many hours of enjoyment whether you are at an SCA event, Ren-Faire or just relaxing in front of your fireplace for a friendly game. chrisvnh.bizland.com /BrandubhGame.html   (411 words)

Norse Games The game in the hollow on the upper half looks like nine men's morris at first glance, but closer examination shows no connectors between the three courts, and each corner of each court is set off by an angular stroke like the Ballinderry game. The only close to period example of an actual hnefatafl (another game of the tafl group) board that I am aware of is that from Vimose c 400. A number of names for game pieces are recorded: hnefi, the king in hnefatafl; tafla (plural: tšflur), the other pieces in hnefatafl; hœnn, aconical piece in a pin game; possibbly also a conical piece in hnefatafl; and tanntafl, walrus tusk pieces. www.ravensgard.org /prdunham/ngames.html   (2112 words)

Rose & Pentagram Wood Games These games were played by Norse cultures as early as 400 A.D., and were imported by the Vikings to Iceland, Britain, Ireland, and Wales. Unlike Chess, or Checkers which are fought by armies from opposite sides of the board, Tafl games involve a single king and his defenders in the center of the board surrounded by an army of attackers twice their number. The Backgammon game decorating this "recycled" table is inspired by a 4-player game "The Tables of the four Seasons" described in The Book of Games, a manuscript commissioned by Alphonso X of Spain in about 1280. www.historicgames.com /wood.html   (750 words)

Games of the Viking & Anglo-Saxon Age Gaming pieces were often hemispherical and made of virtually anything. Another type of gaming piece found have been made from disk shaped slices of hart's pedicle which must have been taken from a fully grown male deer carcass since this would not have been available with fallen antler. Indeed it is possible for a parallel to be drawn between the tafl games and certain mythological situations. mahan.wonkwang.ac.kr /link/med/folk/game/games.htm   (3806 words)

Nordic Culture > Tablut - Hnefatafl: a Scandinavian board game - Scandinavica.com Board games or Tafl games (Tafl is a word which means "table" in the Old Norse language) were a popular past-time in medieval Scandinavia. The object of the game for the Swedes is to bring their king to safety off to any of the four corner squares of the playing board, while the object of the game for the Muscovites is to capture the king of the Swedes before he scapes. The game ends when the king of the Swedes reaches a safe corner (Swedes win) or when the king of the Swedes is captured by the Muscovites (Muscovites win). www.scandinavica.com /games/tablut.htm   (928 words)

Raven Banner - Links Page MacGregor Historic Games, Period board, dice and card games Hnefatafl - the strategic board game of the Vikings Tabula Letum - Game of Tablut in a 3d environment www.ravenbanner.com /apt/links.shtml   (195 words)

The Online Guide to Traditional Board Games The Game of Twenty Squares (The Royal Game of Ur) Association of Game and Puzzle Collectors (formerly the American Game Collectors Association). Ancient Board Games and the Nabataeans regarding a mysterious game found at the ancient city of Petra. www.tradgames.org.uk /features/board-games.htm   (175 words)

Topica Email List Directory One argument suggests that it was not any game that is currently known. have found what appears to be the game that they were describing. There are also vague Scottish references to a game of “Ard-ri”, or “High King”. lists.topica.com /lists/celtic_history/read/message.html?mid=1719984181&sort=d&start=0   (1408 words)

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