taflkast viking dice game birka FilterLeather Title: Water Take Us Home

Title: Water Take Us Home

50 cm / 20"

The brooches are used to fasten the shoulder straps in the front

Boðn and Són

taflkast viking dice game birka FilterLeather Title: Water Take Us HomeSet of three, large handmade bone dice based on a Viking Age find from grave bj581 in Birka, Sweden. The set comes with a hand stitched leather pouch. One of the three dice is special , just as the original find, in that it comes with two 1's and two 5's. We call it the Urthur (fate) die, since it offers an "all or nothing" approach to the roll. Dice games (Old Norse: Taflkast) were popular during the Viking Age. A dice pouch was easily carried in the