Game
Guests in the hall
Game: welcome the guests with what each one needs, as the Hávamál instructs.
Tap the game to open it fullscreen. On a computer, Esc exits; on a phone, use the ✕ button.
How to play
Each guest asks for fire, water, food or a cloak. Tap the right item (or use keys 1 to 4) before his patience runs out. Welcome twelve guests.
The story behind it
The poem Hávamál, in the Eddas, gives hospitality advice for the traveller: fire, water and a cloak. The requests in the game are made up. Read the story in Hávamál and Viking hospitality: what the poem asked of those who arrived and those who received.