Daldos European game from Viking to Rus
Daldos What Type of game is it, How to play, Where and when it was played, & my theories on it. Part of My Mary Rose Project Marilyn Strawberry Holt known in the SCA as THL Mwynwen Ysginidd Denmark and Norway share a game called Daldos or Daldosa and have relative variations played as far north as Lappland. This game has evidence of being a coastal town game played today in the northern area of Europe. (Jaeren,Thy, Mors, Fano, Bornholm) This is a racing game that has direct capture, it is played with a pair of 4-sided dice. It could also be called a running fight game. somewhere between a racing game and a capture game. For years this style of game was only believed to have been played in the Arab-Muslim world. These games form a group with many variations, known under various names from West Africa to India - tab,taba,tab wa-dukk in the Middle East; sig, sik, sir, siki, in North Africa- sig wa-duqqan As with most all games ...