TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Nancy Marie
TI  - Ivory Vikings: the mystery of the most famous chessmen in the world and the woman who made them 
SN  - 1137279370 (hardback)
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York
PB  - St. Martin's Press
KW  - Lewis chessmen
KW  - Icelandic literature
KW  - Ivories, Romanesque
KW  - Scotland
KW  - Lewis with Harris Island
KW  - Sagas
KW  - Viking antiquities
KW  - Lewis with Harris Island (Scotland)
KW  - Antiquities
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction : The Missing Pieces -- The Rooks -- The Bishops -- The Queens -- The Kings -- The Knights -- Acknowledgments : The Pawns
N2  - In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Who carved them? Where? Brown explores these mysteries by connecting medieval Icelandic sagas with modern archaeology, art history, forensics, and the history of board games
ER  -