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Notes
1. My thanks to curator Leif Pareli, Norsk Folkemuseum, Oslo, for sending drawing and information.
2. Personal communication from Alf Næsheim Feb. 16, 2003. These dice were owned by Rasmus
Nord-Varhaug (1903-1989). Næsheim adds that the dice were often named traltar, probably
from tralta, “roll over”. In Obrestad, Hå, Jæren, one used to say “daldøs!” when throwing a
double dal with the dice. The game probably got its name from this cast, cf. Michaelsen 2001,
28f. This is the only place where Næsheim has seen daldøsa boards with 10 and 14 holes in
the outer rows in stead of the normal 12 (letter of Feb. 25, 2002).
3. Carlheim-Gyllensköld 1900.
4. Keyland 1908.
5. Svensson 1933: 102. See also p. 99, fig. 7 and 8. This game was also known as kavla gullgren
and spela gren, see Tillhagen 1981.
6. Västerbotten 1979.
7. The game from Boda, cat. no. 115.689, was donated by Nils Keyland in 1910.
8. See Borvo 2001, Larsen 1950, and Carlheim-Gyllensköld 1900. A “sjakk-konge” (chess king)
depicted in Omberg 1979, p.28, found during excavations of an 18th-c. Russian whaling station
on Spitzbergen, may perhaps be a sáhkku king.