Description: Now you can play a game with your fabric! This is a playable board of the Scandinavian Medieval game of the Hnefatafl Magpie. Hnefatafl, also known as The Viking Game, The King's Table or Tafl, is a two-player games where the opposing sides are not equal in number, in one word, asymmetrical. The defending side has 4 soldiers and a king, who start the game in a cross formation in the center of the board. Their objective is for the king to escape by reaching any of the four corner squares. The attackers have 8 soldiers positioned in four groups of 2 around the board. All pieces, except the King, move like the Rook in chess and pieces are taken by "sandwiching" i.e. moving your piece so that an opponent's piece is trapped horizontally or vert