Payne, I. (2006). Did the Anglo-Saxons play games of chance?. Antiq J 86. Vol 86, pp. 330-345.

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Title:		 Did the Anglo-Saxons play games of chance?
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Subtitle:		 Some thoughts on Old English board games
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Issue:		 Antiq J 86
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Series:		 Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London
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Volume:		 86
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Page Start/End:		 330 - 345
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Abstract:		 The board games historian H J R Murray stated categorically in 1952 that the popular Germanic game of tæfl (more specifically referred to in a ninth- to twelfth-century Norse context as hnefatafl), a game entirely of skill, was the only board game played in Anglo-Saxon England. However the author argues that Old English literary evidence might pose a challenge to Murray's thesis, and could be taken to suggest that the English also played games of chance (perhaps even tabula, an ancestor of backgammon) in the first millennium AD.
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Author:		 Ian Payne
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Other Person/Org:		 Damaris D Dodds (Abstract author)
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Year of Publication:		 2006
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Created Date:		 14 Mar 2008