Frithcast Episode 93 - Your Move: Tafl and Chess

Episode 93 – Your Move: Tafl and Chess

 

Things we talk about in this episode:

Opening Music:

'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.

[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]

Closing Music:

'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence

[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]

Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org

 

Knightmare: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0193677/

Clan Lasombre https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Lasombra

300 Spartans at Thermopylae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae

Empire Total War https://www.totalwar.com/blog/the-empire/

Guild Wars 2 https://www.guildwars2.com/en-gb/the-game/

Risk https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/181/risk

Monopoly https://monopoly.hasbro.com/en-gb

Whalebone plaque from Scar Boat Burial http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/scarboat/plaqueimage.htm

Dwarf Bread https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Dwarf_Bread

“I believe that children are our future” Whitnet Houston The Greatest Love of All https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYzlVDlE72w

‘I believe for every drop of rain that falls’- Mahalia Jackson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOXHvnSeoAo

I would like to take you on a journey – Rocky Horror Picture Show https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073629/

Torshavn https://www.alongdustyroads.com/posts/things-to-do-in-torshavn-faroe-islands

Scottish Tablet https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/scottish-tablet

Linnaeus observing the rules and writing them down: https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/mathematics/viking-chess-a-game-we-know-thanks-to-linnaeus/

Fluxx https://www.looneylabs.com/games/fluxx

Cards Against Humanity https://cardsagainsthumanity.com/

Lunch Money https://www.atlas-games.com/product_tables/AG1100

Gother Than Thou https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/698/gother-thou

Munchkin https://munchkin.game/products/games/munchkin/

Tafl mentioned as the top boast of Earl Ragnvald of Orkney: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6gnvald_Kali_Kolsson

Odin as the riddle setter Gestumblindi with some riddles set around Tafl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestumblindi

Ian McShane’s character arc in Game of Thrones https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Ray

The complete set found in Torksey in Lincolnshire in September 2020 (found by a metal detectorist and sold at auction): https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/27239/20200909/viking-chess-lincolnshire.htm

4 versions of the Tafl game: http://tafl.cyningstan.com/post/1276/four-schools-of-hnefatafl

Good PDF intro to the game: http://hem.bredband.net/b512479/Hnefatafl_by_Sten_Helmfrid.pdf

Birka grave 523 Tafl pieces: https://www.tillermanbeads.co.uk/onlineshop/prod_3846997-Hnefatafl-kingpiece-from-Birka-grave-523.html

List of Tafl pieces and boards:http://tafl.cyningstan.com/page/92/archaeological-finds

Board games of the Vikings: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/268146544.pdf

Isle of Lewis Chessmen https://blog.britishmuseum.org/check-it-out-the-lewis-chessmen/

Recent discovery of Isle of Lewis Chessman: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-48824712

World Quickplay Tafl Championships: https://www.fetlar.org/hnefatafl and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2Zy-gIrU20

Thud by Sir Terry Pratchett https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Thud!

Tri-Dimensional chess from Star Trek https://www.chessvariants.com/3d.dir/startrek.html

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