Hnefatafl comes from the Tafl games family, which is a family of games from Northern Europe inspired by the Roman Game Ludus Latrunculorum. Hnefatafl is the medieval Scandinavian version, which broke off from tafl to minimize confusion. While we have a lack of written works about the topic from the time period, a general idea…

Glass has had its position in Europe for many centuries as shown by remains found in graves and building excavations. Focusing specifically in Northern Europe, the excavations of meadhalls, graves and ships has shown us shards of vessels and in rarer cases, an existence of glass  game pieces. Since board games had no financial or…