The skills of an accomplished medieval Norseman

I bought a game of tafl from the Jorvik Centre in York last year but I still haven't learned the rules, whilst many commitments got in the way. Tafl is a Scandinavian board game known to have been popular in the early and high Middle Ages, so from about 500 to 1200 AD. Anyway, as I was googling for the rules to this game, I found the following verses wh…