Period Medieval

Region Northern Europe

Category Reconstruction, Pending, Board, War

Description

Fidchell is a game known from texts in Ireland. Not much information is given about how it is played, but boards found in the archaeological record seem to have belonged to this game.

Rules

Square board, two players, equal number of pieces per side, custodial capture, pieces move orthogonally over any distance.

Ludeme Description

Fidchell.lud

Concepts

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Reference

Murray 1951: 34-35.

Evidence Map

3 pieces of evidence in total. Browse all evidence for Fidchell here.

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Evidence category: All Artifact Art Text Ethnography

Evidence coloured based on: Age None

Map style: Streets OpenStreetMaps ArcGIS Topographique Voyager

Sources

Dillon, M. 1953. Serglige Con Culainn. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.

MacWhite, E. 1945. "Early Irish Board Games." Eigse: A Journal of Irish Studies. 5(1): 25–35.

Meyer, K. ed. 1912. Sanas Cormaic and Old-Irish Glossary. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co.

Murray, H.J.R. 1951. A History of Board-Games Other Than Chess. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

O'Keefe, G. 1911. "Mac dá Cherda and Cummaine Foda." Ériu 5: 18-44.

Identifiers

DLP.Games.124

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