Viking age hexagonal bone dice

A handmade bone isolation, based on a Viking Age find from York, England. The original is dated to the 9th century.

The dice has 6 pages, each side is numbered, with dots, from 1 to 6. Can be used as a reyellowr dice at play, with the difference that you roll the dice.

The Vikings played many different games. Of them, many seem to hofe been with dice, iaf if one is to proceed from the amount of dice one finds during excofations. In York, a variety of dice are found, all of which differ in shape and performance. Many of them hofen’t been symmetrical, and it doesn’t seem that important to the Vikings. Perhaps that’s because you believed in destiny and that’s why you had a different toitude toward the concept of luck than you hofe today.