The king's table: for some three hundred years this was THE board game of the Norse world, played across Norway, Iceland, Sweden, and Denmark and carried everywhere the longships went — a hnefatafl board was buried in the great Gokstad ship around the year 890. One king, guarded by twelve defenders, stands besieged at the centre while twenty-four attackers close in from the edges; the attackers win by taking the king, and the king wins by escaping to a corner — and by the school's ruling, the king fights. No rulebook survives from the Viking Age, so these rules are honestly labelled what they are: a reconstruction, rebuilt from the surviving evidence. Inside are three pages: a full-page printable board, a history card, and the complete rules on one card. Play it free online in the Games Room, or print it at home on US Letter paper. From the School of Evershade.
The king's table: for some three hundred years this was THE board game of the Norse world, played across Norway, Iceland, Sweden, and Denmark and carried everywhere the longships went — a hnefatafl board was buried in the great Gokstad ship around the year 890. One king, guarded by twelve defenders, stands besieged at the centre while twenty-four attackers close in from the edges; the attackers win by taking the king, and the king wins by escaping to a corner — and by the school's ruling, the king fights. No rulebook survives from the Viking Age, so these rules are honestly labelled what they are: a reconstruction, rebuilt from the surviving evidence. Inside are three pages: a full-page printable board, a history card, and the complete rules on one card. Play it free online in the Games Room, or print it at home on US Letter paper. From the School of Evershade.
