Board Games
As it turns out, Vikings were quite fond of board games. One game they played was called ‘Hnefatafl‘ and it was a strategy game played on a checkered board. The game incorporated figurines to represent two rival armies, similar to chess.
Board Games
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First Recorded Encounter
The first Viking encounter was recorded Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. It described a Norweigan group of men arriving in England that were mistaken for merchants by a royal official. When the official requested they come to the king’s manor to pay trading taxes on their good, they murdered the official.
First Recorded Encounter