It's been a good year for creative headlines, but sometimes you just get gifted them. "Hnefatafl" is a Viking chess game based on an ancient "Fetlar Hnefatafl" ruleset and is now available in Steam ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from King’s Table: Hnefatafl Hnefatafl is an ancient Viking board game full of strategy and excitement. One player defends the king, who tries to escape to the ...

A piece of worked glass unearthed from the English island of Lindisfarne that researchers suspect may have once been a Viking game piece Jeff Veitch After a long, hard day of pillaging, nothing helped ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Vikings Hnefatafl: Kings of the Dark Age In the late 8th century, Anglo-Saxon Britain faces a threat like none before: northmen from across the seas, also ...

The event was run by the Anglo Saxon re-enactment group Ealdfaeder, of which three-time world Hnefatafl champion Tim Miller and reigning English champion Pete Jennings are members. The English ...

"Hnefatafl" may sound like one of those sneezes that takes half your nose off, but in reality it's a Scandanavian board game that was popular before Scandanavian hipsters started getting into the ...

This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. In central and eastern Sweden from 550 to ...