Links to more information on the Viking board game Hnefatafl.

Foteviken's Museum, Swedish. Foteviken's Museum in Skåne has a page about hnefatafl and game rules. The exact address changes.
Sten Helmfrid, Swedish (English text). History, rules and variants.
Arild Hauge, Norwegian. Rules and history. (Hauge has more about vikings here).
Tim Millar, British. Rules and strategy.
Nikolas Lloyd, British. Discussion of variants.
"Tafl: An Obsession", British.
Neil's Research Home Page.
The Game Cabinet, USA. History, rules, strategy.
Christie Ward, "Gunnvor silfraharr", USA. History.
Harmaasudet, Finnish. Rules.
Dirk Jerusalem, German. History, rules and variants.
Leikmot, German. Rules and history.
Frank Niessen, German.
Boris Stratilatov, Russian. Rules, variants and strategy.
Creoterika.ru, Russian. Rules and variants.
Kruki, Polish. History, rules and variants.
Hnefatafl - stará severská hra, Czech.
Ludoteka, French. Rules.
Ludoteka, Basque. Rules.
WunderKammern, Italian. Article by Eleonora Matarrese. History, rules and variants.
Acanomas, Spanish. History and rules.
Mauro Celso Mendonça de Alvarenga, Portuguese (Brazil). History.

Danish museums about the Viking Age:

Danish National Museum.
Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde.
Lejre Experimental Center (iron age).
Viking Fortress Trelleborg.
Royal Jelling.
Museum of the Viking Age and the Middle Ages in Ribe.
Viking Denmark. Home page with a large collection of photos from Viking sites.

Other Nordic museums:

Historical Museum, Oslo, Norway
National Historical Museum, Stockholm, Sweden.
National Museum of Finland, Helsinki, Finland.
National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
"National Museum of Scotland", Scottish.
Uig Museum, Hebrides, Scotland. Finding place of the famous Uig or Lewis Chessmen.

Some societies and sites interested in history, Vikings and the board game Hnefatafl:

The Vikings, UK.
Regia Anglorum, UK.
Manaraefan Herred, UK.
The Vikings in Wirral, UK.
Vikingklubben, Norge.
Tuatha de Bhriain, Ireland.
Trebeta, Germany.
Every summer a Viking/Early Medieval Festival is held in Staraya Ladoga, an important Viking/Slavonic settlement and the first capital of Russia. The Viking Rurik was an early king of Staraya Ladoga. See photo series from the festival.
Video from battle in Ladoga.
Video from Idatee Vardjad, Estonia.
Wolf Pack photos gallery.
Varingis, Lithuania.
Smithsonian National Museum of National History, USA, about vikings.

Dr. René Gralla wrote this feature on the annual Hnefatafl world championships on the Shetland island Fetlar on ChessBase News (in German).

Result of the Hnefatafl championship: Hnefatafl world champion 2010 is Tim Millar from Somerset, UK. See the newspaper article in The Shetland Times

John C. Ashton in USA did an interesting analysis directly from one of the historic sources, the Latin diary of Carl von Linné from his excursion to Lapland in Sweden, 1732, where Linné found and described the Sami board game called Tablut, a descendant of the at that time lost Viking game Hnefatafl. Ashton suspected the Hnefatafl game rules in Anglo-American countries to be erroneous due to a chain of translation errors and misunderstandings. Therefore Ashton started over again with a fresh translation of the Latin text of Linné.
The research article and findings of John C. Ashton were published in the journal The Heroic Age,
read the article, Linnaeus's Game of Tablut and its Relationship to the Ancient Viking Game Hnefatafl, here.

On the Viking longship Sea Stallion:
The Sea Stallion is an accurate copy of a 30 metres Viking longship with 60 oars and 65 men. In 2007 the ship sailed from Roskilde in Denmark to Dublin in Ireland, and in 2008 the ship returned to Roskilde. The crew on board came from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, UK, Germany, Netherlands, USA, Canada and New Zealand.

Here are photos from the arrival of the Sea Stallion to Roskilde after a voyage of 4800 kilometers.
Home page of the Sea Stallion.
Vikingtoday

Photo series of the departure from Roskilde.
More photos of the departure.
Videos on YouTube.
Videos on Danish TV.

Play Hnefatafl online.

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Opdateret d. 11.4.2012