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Artist: © Rasmus Holbroe (Jan. 2016).

Links to more information on the Viking board game Hnefatafl.

Hnefatafl - Train your Brain like a Viking / Hjernetrim for vikinger, Norwegian National Science week / Forskningsdagene 2020 at the University of South-Eastern Norway:
Lecture: "Hnefatafl - Game Play and power Play in the Viking Age" by prof. Bjørn Bandlien.
Hnefatafl Copenhagen 11x11 rules explained by Hnefatafl Grandmaster Adam Bartley.

World Tafl Federation on facebook. Notice the collection of photos on the Facebook site! Large photo series of handmade tafl sets!
Hnefatafl: the Game of the Vikings is on Facebook. (Damian Walker)
Hnefatafl - the Game of the Vikings, Damian Walker, British. Historical tour.
Adam Bartley. Professional museum exhibitions at the Bergen Museum, Norway.
Tønsberg Vikingfestival (Facebook).
Viking Games Pieces & Boards.
Remembering Hnefatafl, the 1,000-year-old viking board game murdered by chess,inverse.com 5.7.2022
Hnefatafl - the Strategic Board Game of the Vikings, Sten Helmfrid, Swedish (English text). History, rules and variants. Historical tour.

Some Viking related videos.

Some Scandinavian culture.

Contributions from players.

Tim Millar ("crust"), UK.
Hnefatafl blog of Alessandro Arzani ("Abbas Agraphicus"), Italy!
Bellezza e Armonia nei Giochi strategici. Marco Magari ("Mmagari"), Italian blog in English.
Steve Lonsdale ("Xerxes") visited Erik the Red's settlement in Brattahlid, Greenland, in 2017 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 (Hat tip: Xerxes)
Tim Millar ("crust") Sea Battle Tafl set.
Adam Bartley ("Adam") Sea Battle Tafl set for exhibition.
Alexander Steiger Dis ("Steiger") game sets.
Mikkel Berg-Nordlie ("mihkkal") game sets.
Bjarke Bitrym game sets.

Contributions from Lucho Panchev ("OdinHimself").

Contributions from Dmitriy Pashkov, Ethnic Board Games, Moscow, Russia.

Linnaeus' Game of Tablut and its Relationship to the Ancient Viking Game Hnefatafl, by John C. Ashton, Chicago, USA, March 2007. Full length article published here with kind permission from the author.
LE TABLUT DE LINNAEUS, by Nicolas Cartier, France, November 2011. Published here with kind permission from the author.
La Famille du Hnefatafl, magazine "Histoire et Images Médiévales", 2012, French.
Brettspillet - Jernalderkrigerens virtuelle arena (summary).
Spill i middelalderens bysamfunn.
In quest for the lost gamers..
Ancient Board Games 3: Hnefatafl and Tablut. Eddie Duggan, UK.