Play the Viking board game Hnefatafl online | Viking Chess | Tablut | Nefatavl

Play Hnefatafl Online.

The Viking board game.

Tafl against humans.

Тавлеи против людей.
(Button in top panel.)

Rasmus Holbroe vikings
Artist: Copyright © Rasmus Holbroe (Jan. 2016).

Search! Who is Nicolas Cartier, who wrote this paper?
LE TABLUT DE LINNAEUS / Nicolas Cartier (November 2011).

Steve Lonsdale ("Xerxes") visited Erik the Red's settlement in Brattahlid, Greenland, last year and writes about it here:
Brattahlid

The January 2018 issue of Tabletop Gaming Magazine has an article on hnefatafal, including input from David Lonsdale ("Animals") and Damian Walker ("Cyningstan"), and mention of this website. The magazine is available in PDF form from here (article starts on page 48):
Tabletop Gaming Magazine
(Xerxes)

Small forum.


  04-21/09:54 Hagbard:  Nice game piece! Looks like a slice of a bone. They liked decorations in those days, but perhaps the circle decorations could also be used to distinguish types of pieces?

  04-20/10:08 Agmundr:  Picture of a tafl piece found in Oslo. https://smp.vgc.no/v2/images/e23c6dbd-b45a-4043-96a9-d3298d46e99e?fit=crop&h=1000&w=1000&s=4688a65908f042a668ffb4f0133ea64a005cedb4

The article: https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/XPV2n/nytt-middelalderfunn-i-oslo-vekker-oppsikt

  04-18/20:17 Hagbard:  ;)

  04-18/19:50 OdinHimself:  Ek hlewagastir holtijar horna tawido is what I got from the runes too, but it just didn't have a translation from Danish to English. Now I see why, it's an Old Norse, my native language when I was a viking in one of my past lifes...

  04-18/08:27 Hagbard:  400's, the same time as the first tafl board found.

  04-18/08:01 Hagbard:  Famous inscription, Old Norse, on the golden horn from 400's, ek hlewagastir holtijar horna tawido, I Lægæst son of Holt made the horn.

  04-18/06:35 OdinHimself:  This is hard! I can't understand what you say Hagbard.

  04-17/22:19 Hagbard:  ᛖᚲ ᚺᛚᛖᚹᚨᚷᚨᛊᛏᛁᛉ ᚺᛟᛚᛏᛁᛃᚨᛉ ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ ᛏᚨᚹᛁᛞᛟ

  04-17/12:58 Hagbard:  New in gallery: new tafl boards from Lucho Panchev.

  04-16/22:17 Hagbard:  Spot on!

  04-16/20:00 OdinHimself:  So, Agmundr aka Asbjorn Riis said Hail Hnefatafl! and Hagbard answered in Danish - Exactly! Am I right warriors? :)

  04-16/14:37 Hagbard:  ᛀᛂᛗᛚᛁᚷ!

  04-16/14:31 Hagbard:  "C0;"

  04-16/14:29 Hagbard:  C0;

  04-16/10:52 Agmundr:  ᚼᛂᛚᛚ ᚼᚾᛂᚠᛅᛏᛅᚠᛚ!

  04-16/10:04 OdinHimself:  @Hagbard: Hail! This means we are growing in number and knowledge! Viking steel will prevail!

  04-16/00:33 Hagbard:  This week the players did 6672 game moves, highest number ever for this site.

  04-15/22:21 Teondrae:  Hagbard that is in an awesome feature. I beat Crust only twice in my days... I miss playing him even though I lost all the time. Haha

  04-15/01:24 Hagbard:  With this function you can look more than two years back and find them again:
http://aagenielsen.dk/visallespil_soeg_nath.php

  04-14/23:59 Teondrae:  Well I noticed that my games against crust in games archive are not there anymore. Makes me sad I used those as review of how to play by losing all them lol

  04-14/13:41 Hagbard:  @Adam: NB, the two games against casshern time out in 6 days.

  04-12/20:16 Hagbard:  NB. The large forum is opened for new registerings for three days.

  04-12/15:53 Hagbard:  Welcome mccluskeyp. The next tournament is Historical Hnefatafl 15x15, it's a test tournament and starts in about a week. At that time you just click a button and join.

  04-12/14:31 mccluskeyp:  Hello, new player and forum user here.  I'm wondering if it is possible for new players like me to join your next tournament, and if so how can I do that?

  04-10/03:56 steiger:  Oh gosh, all kinds of stuff!

  04-09/18:09 SimpleMath:  What’s up?

  04-06/10:50 Agmundr:  https://www.met-hammer.ch/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Valhalla-Mjod-Met.jpg.jpg

  04-06/09:39 Agmundr:  Skál! 🍻

  04-05/23:23 Ded Fomich:  And as judged by results a viking from Vinland runs on mead as Agmundr likes to say.

  04-05/23:13 Ded Fomich:  And a powerful player from Copenhagen is strongly represented in that overview too!
Nice going, gentlemen!

  04-05/18:18 Hagbard:  The Historical 13x13 tournament finished yesterday, and the tournament doubled the experience with this variant!

At bottom of the Wall of Fame page is calculated the quadrathlon results for the 8 players who participated in at least two of the four tournaments Copenhagen + Berserk + Sea Battle 11x11 + Hist. 13x13.
At top of the same page is an overview of the three top winners of various tournaments.
In the winners' overview is strongly represented players from the clubs in Kyustendil, Formby, Tønsberg and Moscow!

  03-31/10:45 Hagbard:  Interesting videos about Old Norse language!

  03-30/14:18 Ded Fomich:  Here’s a short video from Dr. Jackson Crawford, an Old Norse specialist and instructor of Nordic Studies at the University of Colorado, about knattleikr and hnefatafl: https://youtu.be/lVKmNxWiqy4

Dr. Crawford runs a really wonderful YouTube channel—it’s about Old Norse, its grammar, pronunciation, about sagas, myths and other related topics.

  03-30/14:11 Ded Fomich:  Very reasonable decision, there should be limitations even for no timing games.

  03-29/19:00 Hagbard:  So if there are no objections, the games where there has not been a move since autumn last year, will time out.

  03-29/17:51 casshern:  @Hagbard: I agree with allowing “no timing” games to time out after a month. It is unfortunate, since I have the most games to lose. But, the point of “no timing” is to allow players more time to play games. I understand some players don’t have enough time to play games with the regular timing restrictions. But, I think 1 move per month is a very reasonable expectation for a player to keep a game active.

  03-29/15:06 Hagbard:  About "No Timing & No Rating": At the moment these games can be deserted for ten years and nothing will happen, they'll be on the list forever.
Would it be an idea to let "No Timing" games time out after all, if no move was made in the game for a month?

  03-26/11:52 Hagbard:  The historical rules are scalable and work on all the archaeological boards (7, 9, 11, 13 and 15). And the game length does not increase much even when the board is larger.
(In comparison to king captured from 4 sides in Fetlar etc., we've experienced that this works only on board 11x11).

As for capture of corner pieces: this has turned out to be more a philosophical problem ("dead squares"). In reality there've now been played 150 games with this rule in function and no corner piece was ever captured at all. Capture of a corner piece turned out to be something which could happen only very very rarely.
So ok, after the Hist. 13x13 tourn. it could be dropped for the Hist. Hnef., and as an experiment kept for the Sea Tafl.

  03-25/18:18 Ded Fomich:  It’s very nice that HH rules work so beautiful on this board and using this starting setup. But I think that there is no need to use that new rule about the corner capture because of its rarity as far as there was no need in “Linneaus capture” because of the same reason. I’d prefer to leave HH rules as they are—simple, historical and well working. Maybe this rule can make sense in Sea Battle Tafl.

  03-25/18:13 Ded Fomich:  I had no doubt that Casshern will prove his title of the heavy tafl shark according to classification of Tim Millar, I wish to pay him well-deserved tribute, congratulations! Many thanks to Hagbard for the organisation of this HH tournament and to all the players for the very nice and tough battles. I wasn’t expecting that I’d like the games on such big board, but the reality has shown to be different. Skál!

  03-22/13:52 Hagbard:  A great thank you to casshern and to all the players for your effort in this series of tafl games, and congratulations to casshern on the good results!

The quadrathlon of games has given new information about the four variants, especially the Sea Battle 11x11 and Hist. Hnef. 13x13 which were not as thoroughly tested as other variants. Before this tournament, the best estimate of the game balance of Hist. Hnef. 13x13 was +1.30, and an alternative setup was prepared to help black a bit. Now the estimate is -1.09 and the alternative setup is discarded.

  03-21/20:08 casshern:  Thanks Xerxes and Agmundr! And thanks Hagbard for putting these tournaments together. They were all very challenging. I really enjoyed it. Now, I am exhausted. I need a little break.

  03-21/08:39 Hagbard:  While we're at it, the triathlon might as well be made into a quadrathlon and the scores calculated for:
Copenhagen (the world champ. tourn.) + berserk + sea battle + hist. hnef.
Casshern won this one too.

After this hist. hnef. 13x13 tournament, the 13x13 board is well known, as are already the 7x7, 9x9 and 11x11 boards.
But there's little experience with the 15x15 board, so planned for research the next weeks is:
Sea Battle 15x15
Hist. Hnef. 15x15

  03-19/10:07 xerxes:  Yes, congratulations to Casshern.  We will need a new symbol - TP - for Tafl Polymath.

  03-19/08:58 Agmundr:  Congrats Casshern! You are truly a Tafl Master! Skål! 🍻

  03-17/23:31 Hagbard:  casshern won the Hist. Hnef. 13x13 tournament and is Hist. Tafl Master 2018!
The first plan was to have a triathlon, and since casshern won all three tournaments we did after all also find a Triathlon Master.
Actually it's possible also to calculate the triathlon results for all the 14 participating players, I'll return to that when more games of the last tournament are finished.

  03-12/08:58 Hagbard:  Notice: But Mmagari is unchallenged no. 1 on the Brandubh rating list. Top ten:
1819 Mmagari (320)
1704 Crust (216)
1688 Altti (82)
1687 Plantagenet (45)
1622 Animals (77)
1568 Steiger (83)
1550 Epoc (55)
1549 Siegfried (15)
1543 Adam (8)
1534 Pié96 (13)

  03-11/08:42 Hagbard:  New in gallery: Koby Norman, USA, sent a new, handmade tafl set.

  03-08/19:21 Hagbard:  They were calculated:
http://aagenielsen.dk/separate_ratings.php

  03-08/18:56 edmond-dantes:  what happened to the Nath and Mmagari ratings?

  03-06/11:37 Hagbard:  No problem

  03-06/10:58 Bogd Khan:  Sorry I can't play Hist. Tafl

  03-06/06:11 OdinHimself:  Thank you, Hagbard!!! :)

  03-05/11:00 Hagbard:  @Bogd Khan: Have you regretted the tournament and want to leave it?

  03-04/12:44 Hagbard:  @OdinHimself: Thank you, a good page about tafl!

  03-03/18:52 Ded Fomich:  Got it, thanks.

  03-03/18:48 casshern:  :P

  03-03/18:47 casshern:  :)

  03-03/18:41 Hagbard:  @casshern: :)

  03-03/18:38 Hagbard:  The corner capture is a simple extension of capture in other edge squares: it takes two enemies to capture from two neighbour edge squares. In this case you can capture a1 from b1 and a2.

  03-03/18:37 casshern:  @Ded Fomich: As far as I understand the new rule, pieces on the corners can be captured, but like all other squares, it takes 2 pieces to capture. So in order to capture a1, you need a piece on a2 then moving to b1 would capture the corner piece.

  03-03/17:29 Ded Fomich:  @Hagbard In my HH tournament game with Xerxes (I play as defenders) in current board position I can move b7–b1, as far as I understand that new rule about corners, the piece on a1 has to be beaten as a result of my move, but nothing happens. Or did I misunderstand the rule?

  03-03/08:07 OdinHimself:  http://nikulec.com/vikings/hnefatafl-vikinshki-shah/
An article about hnefatafl in Macedonian website. Spreading the word...

  03-02/11:24 Ded Fomich:  I hear the brave words, they are full of the true Viking’s spirit—you can not lose, you can win or die in the battle, no other options. Let’s follow that course, the historical hnefatafl rules are fully consistent with that spirit and don’t imply any draws. No retreat, no surrender, to the last drop of blood, skål! 🍻

  03-01/11:18 Agmundr:  Good luck everyone joining the Hist. Hnefatafl tournament! The battleground is ready, may you be victorious or die in honour! Fight to the last drop! 🍻

  02-28/16:22 Hagbard:  Sounds logical. So that'll be it, if no objections -

  02-28/13:43 Ded Fomich:  Casshern leaves ruins in his wake, as always impressive result, congratulations!

Since all the titles have one main word “Master” (GM—Grandmaster, IM—International Master, NM—National Master), it would be logical to keep using the same word, for example: Berserk Tafl Master—BTM, Sea Tafl Master—STM, Historical Tafl Master—HTM. It's just a suggestion, one of the possible variants.

  02-28/11:48 Hagbard:  Sea Battle tourn. finished, and Casshern cleared the table for all 12 points!
At midnight the Hist. Hnef. 13x13 starts, and winner is Hist. Viking 2018 (or some better name?).
As usual: The tournament is open to join for 10 days. 1 day per move and 8 days time buffer. After 10 days, the time per move is gradually reduced. But even with no time buffer left, you always have 1 day for your current move (25 hours).
Notice: a piece can be captured on a corner square.
Have fun!

  02-28/07:39 Hagbard:  ok

  02-28/07:39 OdinHimself:  Thanks, I'll try it when I get home. If I have any issues I'll contact you.

  02-28/07:06 Hagbard:  (What you see is that Chrome uses an old css-file stored in the cache. Chrome will eventually update to the new one. Clearing the browserdata would make this happen immediately)

  02-28/06:51 Hagbard:  No sorry - it's upper RIGHT corner

  02-28/06:47 Hagbard:  Thanks, saw the screenshots. Do you know how to clear browserdata on Chrome? (Upper left corner, More Tools, Clear Browserdata).

  02-28/06:40 OdinHimself:  I use Google Chrome. Sent screenshots on Messenger

  02-28/06:29 Hagbard:  Tested on Firefox: Panel bar also at top of the screen

  02-28/06:26 Hagbard:  Which browser do you use?
The enter is now by the button "Tafl against humans" in the panel bar.
The panel bar should always be at the top of the screen, tested on Google Chrome and on mobile phone.

  02-28/06:22 OdinHimself:  Hagbard, I'm having problems entering the My Games section? Site doesn't show me the button on the main page and all buttons of the top panel are postitoned at the bottom. Please check, thank you!

  02-27/12:50 Ded Fomich:  Got it, thanks. Actually there is no need to surround in Saami Tablut, it was made by me just out of curiosity.

  02-27/12:18 Hagbard:  You managed to encircle the defenders indeed and so already won. It's just that, to save computer time, encircling is not searched for on boards smaller than 11x11, since it never happened before -

  02-27/11:34 Ded Fomich:  @Hagbard In my Saami Tablut game with Agmundr the rule about surrounding doesn’t work, my attackers did not manage to win by encircling all the defenders (HH rule 7b: If the attackers surround the king and ALL remaining defenders, then they win, as they have prevented the king from escaping). Actually I never used that rule playing Tablut but this time I decided to see if that rule works.

  02-24/07:31 Hagbard:  A greeting to our Eastern board gamers:
Yesterday we heard in our finest cathedral, not a vacant seat, a terrifically skilled chorus from Hungary of 40 singers, "Cantemus Pro Musica". Like hearing the angels sing!

  02-21/19:11 xerxes:  Yes, Congratulations to Casshern - no arguing about who was the winner !  And I'm up for HH 13x13 as soon as yu want to start it.

  02-21/17:28 Hagbard:  Congratulations to casshern, the score list tells that he is the Sea Tafl Pirate 2018!
What about starting the 3rd tournament at March 1st? Historical Hnefatafl 13x13, the winner is Hist. Tafl Viking 2018, since he masters the old game of their own.

  02-16/07:43 Hagbard:  A note about contemporary customs in Denmark:
On the queen's birthday it is customary to cheer 9 * hurra.
Two days ago Prince Henrik of Denmark passed away. Yesterday he was transferred to Copenhagen while 9 * 9 cannon salutes were fired in Copenhagen and in Elsinore.
Rooting in old Viking habits? As 9 is a sacred Viking number.

  02-14/10:16 Hagbard:  !

  02-14/09:30 Agmundr:  For those who likes Nordic music I can recommend this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BPILaMT50k  It really makes my blood boil.

  02-13/16:02 OdinHimself:  Great news Hagbard! Good photos and song (though you all know what I prefer in music genres :O) Hehe I would love to see Svartsot on Eurovision, especially with songs from Mulmets viser or Ravnenes Saga. Anyway, haven't been much around these days, hope this will change soon.

  02-11/20:32 Hagbard:  New in gallery: Classic Board Game café, Denmark.

  02-11/07:13 Hagbard:  And yesterday a Viking song won the Danish Song Contest 2018. Take that, Danish embassy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8okAfsbYoI

  02-08/09:29 Hagbard:  Tournament 98 is the Sea Tafl championship tournament.

  02-08/06:40 Hagbard:  Notice in Sea Tafl: a piece can be captured on a corner square.

  02-07/14:56 Hagbard:  Plan for research here the coming weeks:
Finding Sea Battle Champion.
Finding Hist. Hnef. Champion.
Testing a Hist. Hnef. setup (Tablut 13x13 (modified Parlett))
Testing a Sea Tafl setup (Sea battle tafl 13x13 (Nielsen))
Testing a Cop. setup (Copenhagen Hnefatafl unsafe-edge 11x11)

  02-07/08:41 Hagbard:  Sea Battle 11x11 tournament starts after midnight, and winner is Sea Tafl Chieftain 2018 (or some better name?).
The tournament is open to join for 10 days (but please better join early). 1 day per move and 8 days time buffer. After 10 days, the time per move is gradually reduced. But even with no time buffer left, you always have 1 day for your current move (25 hours).
Have fun!

  02-06/15:01 Ded Fomich:  @Steiger I don’t remember who was that kind man who helped you and used your smartphone to make that photo, I just meant that Steiger’s smartphone = Steiger’s photos.

  02-05/21:15 Steiger:  @Ded Fomich, Then who photographed us, my friend?)))

  02-05/19:24 Hagbard:  thanks, corrected

  02-05/19:10 Ded Fomich:  @Hagbard Thank you for posting that in the gallery! Actually there are not only mine photos but also Steiger’s ones.

  02-05/18:39 Steiger:  \m/.)

  02-05/16:22 Hagbard:  New in gallery: Ded Fomich sent photos from a tafl evening in Moscow!

  02-04/07:11 Hagbard:  Sounds good!
The good viking spots in Denmark are in the link to Visit Denmark I posted before.
From Facebook I know your fascination of grand nature also, and the sceneries you posted there are pure Norway.

  02-03/22:04 OdinHimself:  To be honest Hagbard, I feel much better now, after your arguments. I've always lived hoping to visit Scandinavia one day and to see the viking's descendants. And I have built my own idea of how Scandinavians look and live like. And this is why I suddenly changed my enthusiasm with disappointment after the yesterday's meeting. Maybe I just have overrated my expectations. I was 100% sure the people in the Danish embassy would love the idea to support in some way my enterprise. I'm also a billion percent positive that if there were more people like you everything would be much more different. But unfortunatelly these people were not interested at all. The secretary of the embassador told me, that many initiatives have met only bitter end because of the lack of comprehension and some kind of "colder behavior" coming from the danish employees againat bulgarian visitors. So maybe it's the mission representatives themselves who is needed  to be changed? But as I already said before I'm glad you turned my positive point of view back into the right direction. Anyway I gave the embassy one booklet and a calendar as a gift and they accepted it. And if I happen to visit Denmark one day I will be proud to give you one personally. :)

  02-03/19:32 Hagbard:  - and today also Scandinavians museums sell the game with a variant of the "Old Hnefatafl 11x11", a rule set which works.

  02-03/19:28 Hagbard:  If he can pronounce my name, he is Danish. But before this information I googled "Vincent" and to my surprice learnt that it is a popular name in Sweden these days. I also found that Sweden has no embassy in Bulgaria, but has a Swedish consulate which lives in the Danish embassy, so I suspected this man to be Swedish.
A Hnefatafl game set has been sold from all Scandinavian museums with any ancient collections at a good (high) price at least since 1992. There was some confusion about the rules at that time. Danish museums, and I believe also rest of Scandinavia, sold 1992 the set with absolutely non-working rules ("Skalk Hnefatafl 11x11"). But outside Scandinavia they seemed to use rules which work well enough ("Old Hnefatafl 11x11" and variations in small details), these could be found on the internet at least since 1998.
Anyway, some serious work and research has been done by many board game enthusiasts on this site since 2010, and I'd say that we have come to rules which have a solid historical basis and work so reliably and well indeed, that it is absolutely probable that the Vikings played Hnefatafl this way. (The "Skalk Hnefatafl 11x11" from 1992 also has a solid historical basis, but the work was not finished, and the rules are very bad working).
So this embassy emplyee just knows very little about the subject, and as he says himself he knows very little about history since he doesn't think it's part of his job.

  02-03/18:22 OdinHimself:  No need to apologies Hagbard, my friend, you've done nothing wrong. This man was very young. No more than 25 years old. And I think he's a native dane, no matter the name. He even told me how to pronounce your name correctly. Probably he was speaking for himself, saying people in Denmark are not interested in vikings and their past. Maybe, who knows. But the fact I was disappointed of this meeting is real. I've had hopes the Danes will be intrigued and help me in some way, but they just don't respond. They also told me there's no need to do such meetings with the Swedes and the Norwegians in future, because they are going to react exactly the same way. Interesting, he said, but highly unpopular and old game. It has no future in Denmark, good luck with your mission to make it popular in Bulgaria. Have a nice day, sir. But still I will go on, up and forth!!! :)

  02-03/10:01 Hagbard:  I say!!!!!
My deepest apologies on behalf of my fellow-countrymen for their strange rudeness! Vincent isn't even a Danish name, it is some foreigner.
A few examples from Danish media,
this is news from Danish TV april 2017, headline: "Museums' ticket sales storming ahead. We are nuts about vikings in TV and museums":
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/regionale/midtvest/vikinger-erobrer-turister-museers-billetsalg-stormer-frem
An overview from Visit Denmark:
https://www.visitdenmark.dk/da/danmark/historie/kom-taet-pa-vikingerne
The Danish National Museum writes November 2017: "Vikings are popular like never before, and Danes of today look for the history of the Vikings in an unprecedented extent. Therefore November 2nd (2017) the Politiken Forlag publishes the book 'The Journey goes to the Viking Age', which is a guide to the Viking Age in Denmark":
http://www.mynewsdesk.com/dk/nationalmuseet/pressreleases/nationalmuseet-skaber-rejseguide-til-vikingetiden-2243266

  02-03/09:04 OdinHimself:  Yestreday I visited the embassy of Denmark in Bulgaria. Had a talk about them helping me popularizing hnefatafl in Bulgaria. There were 3 employee, one of them a dane named Vincent. He showed no interest at all. What he told me was that no one in Scandinavia cares about vikings, what they did or left. Vikings are representet only in bedtime stories and souvenirs. They are like a funny fairytale he said. We look into the future, not into the past. Very disappointing, I thought. Sad...

  02-03/00:50 casshern:  Thank you Adam and Hagbard! It was another great tournament. Berserk is maybe the most exciting and frustrating variant to play. I was fortunate this time to have won all my games. I have known many defeats on the berserk field. I am looking forward to Sea Battle now. My favorite variant!

  02-02/20:02 Hagbard:  Congratulations to Mario Aluizo (Casshern), Berserker of the year, who swept the table clean and took all the points!

  02-02/13:02 xerxes:  Achilles had a weakness.  If only one of us could find Casshern's ...

  02-02/10:27 Adam:  Congratulations to Casshern! A true berserker. I am reminded of a description of Achilles from Ovids 'Death of Cygnus' as written by Ted Hughs: The chariot of Achilles, through the Trojans, A tornado through a dense forest, Had left a swathe of shattered trunks, Vital roots in the air, a tangle of limbs." I'd say that pretty much describes what was left of the rest of us!

  02-01/23:33 casshern:  Thanks, Xerxes!

  02-01/16:22 Hagbard:  New in gallery: Vogneslav Zmijovich sent photos from a December event in Kiev!

  02-01/11:35 xerxes:  Sea Battle on 8 Feb sounds good - the Berserk tournament is just about over (many congratulations to Casshern).

  02-01/07:38 Hagbard:  How about starting a tournament for the Sea Battle Champion in a week, February 8th?

  01-30/13:29 Hagbard:  Plan: a likewise tournament to find the Sea Battle champion next. Described in a forum post here:
http://aagenielsen.dk/hnefataflforum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4&p=979#p979

  01-22/21:46 Hagbard:  thank you!

  01-22/16:29 Brench:  @Hagbard:  Feel free to add any videos I make to the page.  I'm here to help.

  01-22/14:50 Hagbard:  Beautiful! I added the video to the instruction videos on the Rules page, if it's ok.

  01-22/06:41 Brench:  My latest Hnefatafl video.  Just showing off the lovely set my wife gave me for Christmas:  https://youtu.be/GdMZmzhPrG0

Full contents of the small forum.

International tafl master Lucho Panchev ("OdinHimself"), Bulgaria, tells about Hnefatafl in the scientific TV magazine Epohata na Vodoleya, Bulgarian TV September 2017.

Darius Trimegiste tells about Hnefatafl on Lofoten, Norway, August 2017.

SC Odin club, Bulgaria; Hnefatafl promo, November 2017.

Lucho Panchev's book about Hnefatafl in Bulgarian, January 2018.

Lucho Panchev's book about Hnefatafl in Bulgarian, March 2018.

A review of hnefatafl made by Dmitriy Pashkov for the Russian YouTube channel "THE STATION" Feb. 2018.

Logo: Adam Bartley.

World Tafl Federation on facebook.

Notice the collection of photos on the Facebook site! Large photo series of handmade tafl sets!

World Tafl Federation Hnefatafl Championship tournament 2017.

10 years anniversary since the first Hnefatafl World Championship on Fetlar 2008!

Hnefatafl is also known by the names Nefatavl, The King's Table, The Viking Game, Viking Chess, Tablut or simply Tafl.
History of this site.
Comments on Hnefatafl.
The origin of the Viking board game Hnefatafl and the Berserk rules.
Links to more information on the Viking board game Hnefatafl.

Viking word of wisdom: The Hávamál.
(Havámál på dansk).

Здесь можно играть в тавлеи и против компьютера, и против людей. Можно использовать кириллицу.

Many thanks to Adam Bartley ("Adam"), Tim Millar ("crust"), Gregory Binns ("Torc"), John C. Ashton, Nicolas Cartier, Jonas Lööf ("conanlibrarian"), Olli Salmi, Damian Walker ("cyningstan"), Sten Helmfrid, Rene Gralla, Olga Mudrichenko, Gary and Christa (Germany), Ludovic Antoine, Nikolas Lloyd, Jeffrey Westcoat ("Sigurd"), Rasmus Holbroe and Thore Nissen for their contribution to this site. And not least the more than 400 players the world over who played here more than 15000 real tafl games humans against humans and thus created a vast, practical experience with this intriguing, historical board game.

Updated 29.3.2018