Daily Medieval

The popularity in the Middle Ages of tafl , a type of table game, led someone to develop a version of it that could be used as a teaching to...

Yesterday's post mentioned two people playing tafl.  This was one of several versions of Northern European board games that emphasized ...

When Sigurd was three years old, two half-brothers were killed by the Swedish King Eysteinn Beli. His mother asked Sigurd's older brothe...