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Hnefatafl

A named Norse tafl hunt-game of later Scandinavian practice with a defended king-piece. Not fidchell, not chess, and not a generic board dump.

Also known as Tafl · King's table

Norse tradition

Hnefatafl appears in Norse tradition.
The Poetic Edda’s Völuspá has the gods play tafl in the meadow in the early age. A named Norse board-game attested in that poem, filed on hnefatafl, not chess and not fidchell.
from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014
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Poetic Edda · Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation)
The Poetic Edda, trans. Carolyne Larrington.