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Viking-age rectangular bone die

Name: Viking-age rectangular bone die
Brand: Nordlys Viking
SKU: 08500801
Price: 8.0 USD
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A special bone die based on a specific find from York.

The die is rectangular and has 6 sides, each side numbered, with dots, from 1 to 6. On the ends are the numbers 2 and 4. This makes it a very special die. It also makes it very difficult to roll exactly a 2 or a 4. But it is actually possible. What kind of game the Vikings played with this die we do not know, nor whether it was good or bad to roll these particular numbers.

The Vikings played many different games. Many of them seem to have involved dice, at least judging by the number of dice found during excavations. In York, a wide variety of different types of dice have been found, all differing in shape and workmanship. Many of them were not symmetrical, and this does not seem to have mattered much to the Vikings. Perhaps this is because they believed in fate and therefore had a different attitude toward the concept of luck than we have today.

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