Hnefatafl forum

Damian Walker (cyningstan) has posted, on his website, a translation of the text that accompanied the diagram in the Corpus Christi manuscript. It’s here: http://tafl.cyningstan.com/page/167/alea-evangelii-text The black crosses are mentioned in it and they appear to be something to do with the reli...

If I understand the nineteenth and twentieth century evolution of various versions of Hnefatafl rules and board layouts correctly, they were driven more by attempts to remedy the problems caused by what turned out to be mistranslations of Linnaeus’ 1732 notes about the Tablut game than by any docume...

Alea Evangelii intrigues me. I am not aware of any compelling explanation of the application, in the Corpus Christi manuscript, of a Christian religious context to what appears to be a large, probably 19 x 19, Tafl board. I have also seen no persuasive explanation of the arrangement of pieces shown ...