Hnefatafl Board Game Set

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Human: A collection of pieces designed to play any tafl game variant. Featuring an unadorned, Runic inscribed, and Ogham inscribed king piece. The Runic inscription (read from top to bottom) states "Jarl" (leader, nobleman) on one side and "Tafl" (hnefatafl means table, fist) on the other. The Ogham inscription, read from bottom to top and intended for Irish variants like Brandubh and Fidchell, reads "Ruiri" (king) on both sides. Further information about playing the game and setting up its numerous variants can be found here: http://tafl.cyningstan.com/ Hnefatafl is a family of medieval games that were once played throughout northern Europe. The goal of the defenders is to move the king piece to a corner, or in some rule variants simply to the edge of the board to win. Meanwhile, attackers strive to capture the king before it reaches its objective. Capturing occurs when a piece is surrounded on two sides. However, some rule variants require that the king may only be captured by being completely encircled by attackers. This method of capturing is known as custodian capture. The variant depicted above represents the starting position for Tablut, a game played on a 9x9 board. For more information about Elder Futhark Runes visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_Futhark For further details on Ogham, an ancient Irish script, visit: https://ogham.co/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham To access the OpenSCAD files, you may need to download a font that supports Runic and/or Ogham. The fonts used for this project are Noto Sans Runic and Noto Sans Ogham which can be obtained on Linux by downloading them through your package manager as they do not come pre-installed on most distributions.