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Re: Colors
I also checked Bell (Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, 1979) and it talks about "eight blonde Swedes and their monarch; the other has sixteen dark Muscovites." (p. 78), and it uses black and white circles in the examples, for Muscovites and Swedes, respectively. It would be interesting...
- Thu Aug 15, 2013 7:30 pm
- Forum: Rules
- Topic: Tawlbwrdd 11x11
- Replies: 19
- Views: 59759
National Library of Wales
Hello! For ten years I've been looking for the article by F. R. Lewis cited by Murray and all sorts of other people. When my back was turned, the National Library of Wales has put it on-line. It has turned out to be quite informative, and contains a diagram of the tawlbwrdd taken from that drawn by ...
- Sat Jul 06, 2013 7:34 pm
- Forum: Other
- Topic: archaeology
- Replies: 12
- Views: 24512
Re: Berserk Hnefatafl
One could wonder how chess can have a lady on the battlefield. I read somewhere that once upon a time the chess game had four players and four armies. Then at some point the armies were merged into two armies and two players; this should be why the officers are doubled into pairs. But as one side c...
- Wed Jul 03, 2013 5:57 am
- Forum: Rules
- Topic: General rules
- Replies: 39
- Views: 111739
Re: 13x13 Tafl
By the way, does anyone have a link or file of the oxford ms 122 manuscript with the alea evangelii text translated? The image is covered in enigmatic notation. Would love to read the text. [link not working] I feel a bit cheeky resurrecting such an old thread, especially with a plug, but I've not ...
- Tue Jul 02, 2013 5:06 pm
- Forum: Rules
- Topic: David Brown Hnefatafl
- Replies: 4
- Views: 13376
Re: David Brown Hnefatafl
This is gold. We've been searching for this jigsaw piece of Hnefatafl history. This was the result of a long-term watch on eBay, which I really ought to resume. There have been quite a few past variants I've picked up this way: this, Papillon's Escape, and that moulded resin likeness of the Ballind...
- Sat Jun 29, 2013 4:06 pm
- Forum: Rules
- Topic: David Brown Hnefatafl
- Replies: 4
- Views: 13376
Re: David Brown
Sounds much like the one we used to call "Rachunek 11x11". Would it be possible to upload a scan of the rules to the forum? Would be very interesting to see them. I don't want to post that without the copyright owner's permission, but while I try and get that I've put up a new page [link not workin...
- Wed Jun 26, 2013 6:51 pm
- Forum: Rules
- Topic: David Brown Hnefatafl
- Replies: 4
- Views: 13376
David Brown
I apologize for the length of this excerpt, but I thought it was interesting, particularly the detail that Brown had worked on an Anglo-Saxon dig in Cirencester, possibly in the late 70's or early 80's, which is when this "attempted reconstruction" of hnefatafl was made by someone called David Brow...
- Sat Jun 22, 2013 7:50 am
- Forum: Rules
- Topic: Sea Battle Tafl
- Replies: 37
- Views: 94972
Re: Sea Battle Tafl
Hello! Since I've just joined I thought it would be polite to bring something to the party. A couple of days ago I stumbled upon the rules to Imperial Contest. This is probably the first commercial tafl game; Jaques of London (of Staunton chess piece fame, and still going) must have found the rules ...