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Detail from the gaming board, which has been been described as a "very rare find". PIC: Michael Sharpe/Book of Deer Project.

Detail from the gaming board, which has been been described as a

1 posted on 07/15/2018 1:14:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

Uh......


4 posted on 07/15/2018 1:17:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Looks like a rockgame and not a boardgame.

Don’t always post but love your pings. Thank you.


5 posted on 07/15/2018 1:20:20 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (Free)
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To: SunkenCiv
The search for the lost Pictish-era monastery in the Old Deer area has been ongoing for several years.

We now know the origin of Pict-ionery.

6 posted on 07/15/2018 1:22:29 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ("please pass the winnamins" (/Principled on 6/27/2018))
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To: SunkenCiv

Queen to Queen’s level 3.

Queen to King’s level 1.


8 posted on 07/15/2018 1:23:53 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SunkenCiv

Picts, — mon semblable, — mon frère!


9 posted on 07/15/2018 1:39:13 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: SunkenCiv

Was there any evidence of several species of small furry animals gathered together and grooving in the cave?


10 posted on 07/15/2018 1:50:35 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: SunkenCiv
"DARK TOWER!"


12 posted on 07/15/2018 1:55:04 PM PDT by montag813
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To: SunkenCiv

How in the !@#$ that layout could be used to play THIS game,

https://www.google.com/search?q=Hnefatafl+board&client=firefox-b-1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiG3srF_aHcAhW8HTQIHeM-BXIQ_AUICygC

is a truly impossible stretch.

I spent 22 years researching, writing, rewriting and editing a Viking Trilogy, so I know a thing or two about them.

It’s FREE to anyone who wants to download it.

Download Links are at my Author Blog.

http://wulfanson.blogspot.com/2017/05/viking-hunter-heroic-fantasy-trilogy_17.html


13 posted on 07/15/2018 1:57:24 PM PDT by To-Whose-Benefit? (It is Error alone which needs the support of Government. The Truth can stand by itself.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Interesting find. I looked up how to play this game, never heard of it before, cross between chess and checkers. Thanks for the share.


14 posted on 07/15/2018 2:19:28 PM PDT by DataJunkie (Interesting)
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To: SunkenCiv

Oh, yeah. That’s a PlayStation, Legacy Edition.


16 posted on 07/15/2018 2:44:25 PM PDT by JewishRighter
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Ah, those long, dark and cold Norse winters playing that strategy game of Hnefatafl....................


20 posted on 07/16/2018 6:17:50 AM PDT by Red Badger (July 2018 - the month the world discovered the TRUTH......Q Anon)
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To: SunkenCiv; Gamecock; SaveFerris
"I am from Fidach. You not say Fidach weak!"


25 posted on 10/07/2019 4:52:17 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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