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Boreal Saga Play

by The Boreal Times · Duna Press Editions
Game

Guests in the hall

Game: welcome the guests with what each one needs, as the Hávamál instructs.

Tap the game to open it fullscreen. On a computer, Esc exits; on a phone, use the ✕ button.

How to play

Each guest asks for fire, water, food or a cloak. Tap the right item (or use keys 1 to 4) before his patience runs out. Welcome twelve guests.

The story behind it

The poem Hávamál, in the Eddas, gives hospitality advice for the traveller: fire, water and a cloak. The requests in the game are made up. Read the story in Hávamál and Viking hospitality: what the poem asked of those who arrived and those who received.