Photo gallery on the Viking board game Hnefatafl. |
Adam Bartley writes: Some photos of the hnefatafl sets I had made for the Vikinger i krig exhibition at Midgard Historisk Senter, Borre, Norway. There is a 9x9 Longship Tafl, and the 11x11 superimposed onto a trelleborg using lewis chess men as the pieces. The mix of old and new is a reflection of the museum itself, which is a very modern piece of architecture next to the burial mounds. Click on the photos for enlargement. |
The making of two Hnefatafl sets. Made by Epoc and Sybil. Italy. Next time the two hnefatafl finished... Click on the photos for enlargement. |
Hnefatafl set made by barba, Nederland. Click on the photos for enlargement. |
Tim Millar says: The photo is of the hnefatafl sets made by Shaun Nelson in Burnsall, Yorkshire U.K ("shaunyman"). They started a hnefatafl club which played regularly in the village pub. Click on the photo for enlargement. |
The Hnefatafl game of chuck ward, USA: The first two photos show an oak plywood board that I cut and woodburned. The board on the last photo is a gift I got from a friend. He made it out of poplar wood with oak trim and metal tacks. Click on the photos for enlargement. |
It's the beach hnefatafl set I made on Tresta Beach, Fetlar, Shetland, in 2009. I doubt very much that it is still there... I used it for a bit of practice before the competition. Materials: Sand, pebbles. Click on the photo for enlargement. |
Tim Millar says: This picture was sent to me by a sculptor named Belinda Rush Jansen who lives in Wiltshire, UK. It's really aesthetic. I think the board is an old wooden tray - good idea. Click on the photo for enlargement. |
Tim Millar says: This is Adam Bartley's hnefatafl set, which he made back in the early 1990's I think. Adam knew the game as "Vikings". The board is etched steel, and the pieces are made from plastic model kit sprue and string, and I love the fact that each side has a little "prison" to keep the captured warriors in. Click on the photo for enlargement. |
I made the board with plywood, marked it with a pencil, and sprayed a transparent gloss coating over it to protect it. The glass pieces are taken from a commercial "3 Stones" game that I never played very much (I like Hnefatafl more, after all). It looks a lot like a "Go" board. This is an intentional strategy reference, as both games have a common element of "surrounding" to win. Click on the photo for enlargement. |
Here the leather bag with the pieces is also the game board! Click on the photo for enlargement. |
It's the vertical "wall of hnefatafl" I made as a teaching aid for the Burnsall Viking Festival (Yorkshire, UK) in 2010. I got the idea from a vertical wall-mounted magnetic chess set I saw once. Materials: wooden curtain rings, wooden planks and 121 steel hooks. Click on the photo for enlargement. |
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Webmaster's hnefatafl game. Necktie with the viking Hagbard. Viking post stamp 16.3.2012; hopefully the drawing is not quite fair to the vikings though! Click on the photos for enlargement. |
Notice the two holes in the game table - for the beer horns! See much more about re-enactment Viking life on Madsen's webpage. |
| Tønsberg Middelaldersfestival June 4th-6th 2010, Norway.
In the first photo medieval children are playing hnefetafl at the festival. The set has now been donated to Midgard Historisk Senter in Borre, Vestfold, where people can play on it in the Viking play area. Bartley also made the indoor board inspired by the Gokstad board fragment (second photo) which people play in the activity room. Click on the photos for enlargement. |
| Burnsall Viking Festival September 3rd-5th 2010, England.
Millar took this photos series from the festival which is also mentioned in newspaper articles in Craven Herald, Craven Herald and Yorkshire Post. |
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