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Tablut: a Viking board game
Tablut is a game for two players, Sweden and Muscovy; the Swedes play with the white pieces while Muscovites are black. The piece with the cross is the king of Sweden, and the Swedes' aim is for him to escape by moving to the edge of the board. Unsurprisingly, the Muscovites want to stop this from happening by capturing the king.
Tablut is an example of Hnefatafl games, which were popular across northern Europe during the Viking period. No clear set of rules has survived to the modern day, but more evidence exists for Tablut than other versions. Linnaeus described it in his diary of his time in Lappland.
You're welcome to play a local game against yourself or someone else at the same computer. Alternatively, you can play against someone else over the marvellous world wide web. I'm afraid that it just doesn't seem to work on Internet Explorer, and since I don't have access to a Windows PC, I doubt I'll fix that. It works tremendously in Firefox, Opera and Safari though.
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