Alea evangelii
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title:
Alea evangelii
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Alea evangelii is a member of the tafl family of games.
Known from an eleventh-century Irish manuscript where it is given a Christian scriptural context, the game is played on the intersections of an 18 by 18 squares game board. This is larger than that of most tafl games. The manuscript, Corpus Christi College ms. 122, attempts to give scriptural meaning to a hnefatafl variant, and, though the layout is unwieldy, its proportions are also found in a game board fragment unearthed at Wimose on the
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Boardgame
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alea_evangelii
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2023-07-21T13:00:42Z
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