Saturday, 23 May 2009

Further Adventures of the Lewis Chessmen

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Some of them have been out and about...








The soldiers have been kept in the dark...




...as usual...










The Queen has been finding
modern life
very stressful...



























and as a final indignity the King has now been fenced in and had a kind of stone stump put next to him with Explanations....





...and the writer of this article claims they're not actually chess pieces at all, but pieces for a Viking game called, deliciously, Hnefatafl.
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