Uwe Rosenberg

Rulebook

“A Feast for Odin” is a saga in the form of a board game. You are reliving the cultural achievements, mercantile
expeditions, and pillages of those tribes we know as “Vikings” today—a term that was used quite differently
towards the end of the first millennium.

When the northerners went out for a raid, they used to say they headed out for a “viking.” Their Scandinavian
ancestors, however, were much more than just pirates. They were explorers and founders of states. Leif Eriksson
is said to be the first European in America, long before Columbus.

In what is known today as Normandy, the intruders were not called Vikings but “Normans.” One of them is the
famous William the Conqueror who invaded England in 1066. He managed to do what the king of Norway failed
to do only a few years prior: conquer the Throne of England.

The reason why the people of these times became such strong seafarers is due to their unfortunate agricultural
situation. Crop shortfalls caused great distress.

In this game, you will raid and explore new territories. You will also experience their day-to-day activities:
collecting goods to achieve a financially secure position in society.

In the end, the player whose possessions bear the greatest value will be declared the winner.
 C omponents
Goods boxes Dice

1 orange eight-sided 1 blue twelve-sided

die die
2 goods boxes to store the goods tiles

Game Boards

4 home boards (one for each player)

1 small supply
board for the
ships

4 two-sided exploration boards

1 large action board with action spaces

Tiles

1 oval supply board for the special tiles

15 special tiles

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 Tiles 190 Occupations, 47 red Weapon cards
divided in three decks A, B, and C
Weapons
Craft Leader
Supplier
before the Income phase
if you have with
at least 1/2/3
Crafting
5 Vikings longships
on Crafting
action spaces

2/5/10
2 extension tiles to extend the action board 8a 32 A

45 light brown 145 dark brown 12x bow and arrow, 12x snare,
starting occupation occupation cards 12x spear, 11x long sword
cards

Goods
346 goods tiles, including:
Food Equipment
front side: farm product front side: craft product
back side: animal product back side: luxury good

25x peas / mead 43x oil / rune stone

20x flax / stockfish 30x hide / silverware

1 large round overview tile

20x beans / milk 30x wool / chest

20x grain / salt meat 20x linen / silk

17x cabbage / game meat 20x skin and bones / spices

Building tiles: 3 “shed” building tiles,
3 “stone house” building tiles,
5 “long house” building tiles
20x fur / jewelry

8 mountain strips 15x fruits / whale meat

Animals
32 ship tiles, including: front side: livestock
back side: pregnant dam
18x robe / treasure chest

10x whaling boats 12x knarrs 10x longships

18x sheep / pregnant sheep
Money
125 silver coins, including: 15x clothing / silver hoard

80x “1 Silver” 22x “2 Silver”

15x cattle / pregnant cattle
18x “4 Silver”
Other Wooden Components
5x “10 Silver” 7 “Thing Penalty” tiles
The back of each “Thing Penalty” is
Wooden Goods different: 5 wood, 5 stone, 3 ore, 3 bow and
arrow, 3 snares, 3 spears, and 3 long swords.

48 Vikings 1 brown 1 white round 12 plastic bags, 1 appendix,

(12 for each start player tracking cube 1 almanac, and this rulebook.
32x wood, 24x stone, and 40x ore player) moose

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 B ef ore Y our F irst G am e
Goods
This game comes with a large number of goods tiles. In order to The game provides more tiles than you would normally need,
save you the hassle of storing the tiles in an assortment of plastic even more than you can fit into the goods boxes. Store any excess
bags, we have provided two goods boxes so that you can better tiles as a reserve in the provided bags.
store and organize the goods tiles.
The following table shows how you should organize the goods
tiles in the goods boxes. The goods boxes have alternating
small and large compartments. In the first goods box, the small
compartments are reserved for goods of the size of peas and
beans, and the large ones are reserved for goods of the size of flax
and grain. In the second goods box, the small compartments are
Each row stores goods of the same color and each column stores meant for goods of the size of cabbage and fruits, and the large
goods of the same shape. Note that orange and red goods of the ones for goods of the size of sheep and cattle.
same shape are on two sides of the same tile, as are green and
blue goods. Divide these goods (except for sheep and cattle) into rune
silverware chest silk spices jewelry
treasure
silver hoard
stone chest
two piles and place each pile in its designated compartment.
skin and
oil hide wool linen fur robe clothing
bones
game whale
mead stockfish milk salt meat sheep cattle
meat meat

peas flax beans grain cabbage fruits

For example, every “beans” tile has milk on the other side.
Peas and mead are two sides of the same tile, as are oil and rune
stone. Sheep and cattle are on both sides of their respective tiles.

S etup
Action Board and Goods Boxes
Open the goods boxes and place them on the table next to each
other, so that all players can easily access them.

The goods boxes

Place the large action board in the middle of the table. In a

4-player game, add the two extension tiles to the game board as
shown in the illustration, randomly choosing which side is face
up. (In games with 1 to 3 players, you do not need these tiles.)

Supply Boards for Special Tiles and Ships

Place the supply boards for special tiles and ships next to the
goods boxes. Aside from the blue standard goods in the top row
of the goods boxes, there is a number of special tiles. Unlike the
standard goods, which are supposed to be in unlimited supply,
there is only one copy of each special tile. They are considered
to be blue and follows the same rules as the blue good tiles.
(Also, the special tiles are the same color on both sides.)

Place the special tiles on the oval supply board. The other supply
board is for the three types of ships. Sort the ships by type and 1 oval supply board for 1 small supply board for the ships
place them face up in separate stacks on the supply board. the special tiles

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 Peddler
Occupation and Weapon Cards
Livestock
Market
By no means will you need
all of the cards each game.
Set up only part of them and
replenish the stack later, if
Do not open yet! Do not open yet! need be.

Occupations Weapons
total cost
Peddler dark brown

-1
Livestock
Market

light brown
total cost

-1 1A
1A

There is an “A”, “B” or “C” at the bottom right of the occupation

cards, indicating to which deck each card belongs. We recommend
beginners only use cards from deck A, while experienced players
use cards from both deck B and C, or just shuffle every deck
together. Sort the occupation cards according to their light or dark GAME START

brown back to form two stacks.

Build Houses

An illustration at the top left of the game board indicates what you
receive at the start of the game: Each player draws 1 starting Build Ships
OR

card from the stack of light brown occupation cards into their
hand. (After that, remove the remaining light brown cards from
These are your starting Hunting
cards along withHunting
the game.) Each player takes 1 “bow and arrow”, 1 “snare”, and
1 mead. Always keep all Game
tiles and cards face
Hunting Game Whaling with Whaling
1 “spear” weapon card, as well as 1 “mead” goods tile.
up in front of you and visible to all players.
Shuffle the remaining weapon cards and place them face down Your starting card suggests which path
Laying a Snare
in a stack on the table. Shuffle the occupation cards with a dark you might want to take during the course
brown back and also place them face down in a stack on the table. of the game.
Livestock
Market

Your Personal Boards and the Vikings OR

Each player takes a home board. Place 7 Vikings on the “Banquet Table” track
(only 6 in the short game).
The home boards are two-sided. One side is for a game lasting Weekly

7 rounds (long game), the other for a game lasting over 6 rounds Placement
Market
area Banquet Table
(short game). Decide how many rounds you wish to play and for goods from

place the according side face up. Products

from from
from

Each player chooses a color and takes

the 12 Vikings in their color.
Crafting

Place a Viking on each numbered space of the “Banquet Table” Goods

track (at the top right) of your home board and the rest on the space Thing Square
“Thing Square” (the Vikings’ meeting place). The latter are your
starting Vikings. (Consequently, in the short game, you start the Mountains per player
Landing
and Trade
game with one more Viking.)
Income stages
To the right of the Thing Square, there is the bay with landing diagonal
stages for ships. To the left of the Thing Square, there is the main Waiting space for Stables for sheep
placement area for your valuable goods. the solo game and cattle
OR
any number of with any number of with with

The long game is the main version of the game. We recommend the short game Sailing
to all players who would like
to familiarize themselves with the game mechanics first. On the other hand, veteran players who know every
aspect of the game by heart might find the shorter version more challenging.
Raiding with Pillaging with Pillaging with Plundering

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5 with Iceland with Baffin Island with
Shetland OR OR
OR
Faroe Greenland Labrador
Islands OR OR
Bear Island Newfoundland

Emigration
and
 Mountain Strips, Building Resources, and Silver
Shuffle the eight mountain strips and turn two of them face up
(three strips in a 4-player game). The remaining mountain strips
form a face down draw pile. Place the depicted goods on the spaces
of the face up mountain strips.

Sort the remaining wood, stone, ore, and silver tokens by type and
place them ready at hand. Mountain strips at the start of a game
with up to 3 players
Exploration Boards
Lay out the four exploration boards with their “Shetland”, Overview Tiles
“Faroe Islands”, “Iceland”, and “Greenland” sides facing up in Place the round overview tile on the table and place the white
that order. round tracking cube on space 1.

The letters A to D on the bottom

right of the boards indicate their
front sides.

Building Tiles
Place the “shed”, “stone house”, and “long house” building tiles
in separate stacks on the table.

G eneral O verview
How to Play the Game
The basic principle of the game is simple. Each round, you place
your Vikings on the spaces of the action board and take the chosen
actions immediately.

Because each action space can only

be occupied once per round, you will
quickly get in each other’s way.

What You Want to Achieve

Your goal is to cover the spaces in the placement area of your At any time, you can move tiles
home board with green and blue goods tiles. If you leave gaps, from your supply onto your
you can fill them with ore and silver (as shown below). home board. Once on your
home board, you cannot take
To get the goods tiles in the first place, you will either need them back.
to obtain them by raiding (in the Viking fashion) or receive them
in exchange for farm goods. Ore
Silver
This information bar depicts how to place goods in the
placement area of your home board. The green and blue color
stands for the respective goods.

Overseas trading plays a special role in all of this. It allows you to turn any number of different green goods (representing craft
products) into blue luxury goods in a single action. (How turning a lot of green goods into blue ones may benefit you is explained
in the “Anytime Actions” section on page 12.)

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 Income
The big numbers across the placement area of your home board The home board on the previous
represent income values. The smallest visible income value page would generate an income of
indicates your income for the current round (described further on 2 silver.
page 9).

Bonus
Some spaces of your home board feature goods symbols. In the first example, the
mead space was covered.
In this one, it is completely
There are five goods spaces on
enclosed. Here, you would
your home board.
get a bonus of 1 mead each
round.

You receive these goods each

round as a bonus once you have
covered all spaces surrounding
• During the game, you can explore new territories and add them
them.
to your home board. You will need ships to do so.
• Sooner or later you may wish to cover the goods spaces to
To explore Iceland, for instance,
increase your income. (By doing so, you forfeit the bonus.)
you would need a knarr
or a longship.

What You Get Points For

At the end of the game, you will add the values of • The stone and long houses are special in that they allow you to
your ships, houses, exploration boards, and goods. place orange and red food tiles in them as well as the usual
Points are indicated by the shield symbol. green and blue goods and silver coins, but not ore.

Your large ships can increase in value if you use them

for emigration. (Simply turn them to the other side when
that happens.)

After each emigration, you

will have one fewer ship at Note the two supporting pillars in the center of the long house:
your disposal (here: these cannot be covered.
a longship).
This information bar depicts how to place
goods in the placement areas of your houses
Your home board and the exploration boards have spaces that you (further described on page 12).
must cover with goods tiles to avoid negative points.

You gain additional points for sheep and cattle, which breed every
“Fur” can be effectively worth other round, and for the occupation cards you have played.
8 points if you use it to cover
eight spaces with negative points. The back sides of the animal
tiles show pregnant dams.
These are worth 1 additional
point.
The sheds, stone houses, and long houses also have spaces with
negative points, which you should cover with goods tiles.
• Sheds require wood and stone. Undertaker

Occupations can be worth negative points. In placed a rune stone

on an exploration
this example, the Undertaker is worth -1 point. board

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 C ourse of P lay
Randomly determine who receives the grey start player moose. The long game is played over 7 rounds (the short game over
6 rounds).
We will explain the rules for the game with 2 to 4 players first.
The solo game rules can be found on page 23. Each round consists of the following 12 phases, which are played
one after another in that order.

Phase 1: A New Viking

Take the leftmost Viking from the “Banquet Table” of your home
board and place it with your other Vikings on the Thing Square.
(The now empty space indicates the number of the current round.)

Each round, including the first,

you receive a new Viking.

Phase 2: Harvest
Below the new round number, there is note indicating what you The numbers on the tiles mean:
will receive during harvest.
You receive one of each crop with a 1: peas, beans, and flax .
Long game: You receive one of each crop with a 1 or 2: peas, beans, flax,
and grain.
You receive one of each crop with a 1, 2, or 3: peas, beans,
flax, grain, and cabbage.
You receive one of each crop with a 1, 2, 3, or 4: peas, beans,
• During harvest, you can only get orange goods. flax, grain, cabbage, and fruits.
• Take the goods from the general supply and place them in your “No Harvest” means you do not get any goods in the harvest
personal supply. phase of that round.

Phase 3: Turn Exploration Boards and Placing Silver

In the action phase (phase 5), you can use your ships to claim Increasing the Value of an Unclaimed Exploration Board
additional placement areas on the exploration boards. Some Each round in which you should turn an exploration board (short
exploration boards are available at the start, others become game: rounds 2 to 5; long game: rounds 3 to 6), place 2 silver on
available later. This is why each exploration board that has not each unclaimed exploration board not being turned. Exploration
been claimed by a player is turned to its back side at some point. boards that players have already taken do not receive silver.
A symbol below the harvest notes on your home board indicates • When you turn an exploration board with silver on it, return the
when to turn each exploration board. silver to the general supply.
• Place silver on the other exploration boards even if the
exploration board that is supposed to be turned has already been
In round 3 (round 2 in the short game), turn Shetland,
claimed by a player.
introducing Bear Island.
• There is no phase 3 in the first and last round. In those rounds,
In round 4 (round 3 in the short game), turn the Faroe no exploration board is turned and no silver is placed on any
Islands, introducing Baffin Island. of them.

In round 5 (round 4 in the short game), turn Iceland, Example: In round 3, 2 silver are
introducing Labrador. placed on the Faroe Islands. In
round 4, the Faroe Islands are
In round 6 (round 5 in the short game), turn Greenland,
turned to become Baffin Island
introducing Newfoundland.
and the 2 silver placed there last
round are returned to the general
supply.

When you explain the game, it is a good idea to mention the goal of the game first and the phases of a round
shortly after. You can show that the game is played over six or seven rounds by pointing the players to the seven
Vikings on the “Banquet Table”. Once they are focused on that, you can easily explain the first three phases
with the information provided below it.

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 Phase 4: Draw a New Weapon
Each players draws a new weapon card and places it face up in You could draw a long sword, the only
their supply. type of weapon you do not have from
the start.

Phase 5: Actions
Beginning with the start player and in clockwise order, take •
The action spaces on the action board are
one or more Vikings from your Thing Square and place them organized in groups of similar effects. The
on exactly one unoccupied action space of the action board. wood grain background helps to emphasize
Continue doing so until all players have passed or placed all of this. The type of action spaces in each group
their available Vikings. is stated in the left margin of the action board.
• You can pass even if you have Vikings left in your Thing Square.
Once you have passed, you cannot place any more Vikings that Also, note the actions you can take at any time
round. (When you have none left, you must pass.) during the course of the game (see page 12).

Important: each action space can only be occupied once per round.

Another important rule: each action space in the first column

requires one Viking to activate. Each action space in the During your first play, you might be
second/third/fourth column requires two/three/four Vikings, overwhelmed by the sheer number of
respectively. action spaces. Concentrate in the early
game on exploring the available options.
Use the first few rounds to prepare yourself
for what is to come. You will take the really
important and crucial actions later.

The effect of each action space is explained in the next major • The action phase ends as soon as all players have placed all of
section (starting on page 14). You can tell what most effects do their Vikings or passed.
from their illustration. • Due to the varying number of Vikings that are required on each
action space, some players can run out of Vikings earlier than
• You must use an action space immediately after you occupy it. others. A player without Vikings must pass. Continue until all
To occupy an action space, you must use at least one of its effects players have passed.
(paying a cost is also considered an effect in and of itself).

Phase 6: Determine Start Player

The player who placed Vikings last in the action phase receives
the start player moose and will be the start player in the next
action phase.

Phase 7: Income

This game differentiates between income In this example, “5” is the

and bonuses. Income is paid in silver smallest uncovered value, so
(this phase), bonuses are paid in goods you would receive an income of
(phase 10). 5 silver.

During the game, you will place green and blue goods tiles on
your home board. The smallest uncovered value on the “income • Important: You must cover the income values in ascending
diagonal” indicates the amount of silver you receive this phase. diagonal order. This is explained further on page 12
(Anytime Actions).

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• By claiming exploration boards, you can produce additional
When explaining the game, now is a good time to explain, in
income. Income from an exploration board is handled like
detail, the placement of green and blue goods tiles on your
income from your home board (see also appendix, page 15).
home board. Income is where these rules really matter a lot.
Earlier, on page 6, we gave a general overview of these rules.
A more elaborate explanation will follow on page 12.
Now let us continue with the sequence of a round.

Phase 8: Animal Breeding

At the bottom right of your home board, you can find storage The same applies to cattle.
spaces (stables) for your “sheep” and “cattle” goods tiles. Please
note that these tiles show the same animal on both sides—one Consequently, your sheep and cattle can
side shows the non-pregnant animal, the other the pregnant one. breed every other round.

Examples of Animal Breeding:

In this phase, your animals breed, according to the following rules: • You have three sheep, one of which is pregnant. The pregnant one
• If you have at least 1 sheep with the “pregnant sheep” side facing gets a newborn, the other two remain non-pregnant. Afterward
up, turn all of them to the other side and take 1 “sheep” tile (and you have four non-pregnant sheep.
place it with the “non-pregnant” side facing up in your stable). • You have four non-pregnant sheep. Still, you can only turn one
of them to the pregnant side.
• You have two sheep, one of which is pregnant. During the action
phase, you spend the non-pregnant one. In the breeding phase
of that round, you are now left with a single pregnant sheep. It
• If you have at least 2 sheep but no “pregnant sheep”, turn 1 of still receives a newborn, even though it is the only sheep in the
them to the “pregnant sheep” side. stable. (C’est la vie.)

Phase 9: Feast
This phase focuses on the spaces of the “Banquet Table” track
with no Vikings. • One tile of each type may be placed horizontally to take up
more space at the table (like salt meat in the example below). All
other tiles of that type must be placed vertically (square tiles are
exempt from this rule, as it does not matter).

In this example: 3 spaces have Vikings on them, 9 are empty.

Place orange and red food tiles from your supply (or stable)
and/or “1 silver” coins on each empty space of the “Banquet
Table”, according to the following rules:
• Orange tiles (farm products) cannot be placed next to each other.
You should serve salt meat only once per feast to be efficient.
Bean dishes, on the other hand, can be served multiple times
without penalty.

Every tile you place on the “Banquet Table” must cover at least
one of the squares below the table and fit in the allowed space
(it cannot overhang). If you are not careful, you may have to
inefficiently place several tiles vertically to follow this rule.
These rules are also depicted below the Banquet Table.
• Red tiles (animal products) also cannot be placed next to
each other.
• Silver coins can be placed next to each other. The designer’s love for bean dishes
(Ore cannot be placed on the “Banquet Table”.) should be well-known. Vikings were very
thoughtful about what they ate. Too much
salt meat is unhealthy.

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Thing Penalty
• For each space of your “Banquet Table” on which you could At the end of this phase, move the goods on your “Banquet Table”
not or did not want to place anything, you must take a “Thing to the general supply.
Penalty” tile and place it in your supply. You must keep these
tiles for the rest of the game. (This should not happen too often,
because the feast happens after you receive income. Income
should always provide enough silver to cover the spaces.)

This empty space means you must take a penalty tile.

At the end of the game, you lose 3 points for each penalty tile
you have.

Phase 10: Bonus

Some spaces in the placement area of your home board show a The player whose home board is
goods symbol. These spaces count as already covered, but you shown to the left would receive
can cover them with goods tiles, if need be (according to the 1 mead, 1 wood, 1 stone, and 1 ore
placement rules, see “Anytime Actions” on page 12). If you leave each round.
a goods space uncovered, but instead cover the 8 spaces around it,
you will receive that good as a bonus each round. • You receive your bonus all at the
same time.

The depicted ore space is on the edge of the

placement area, so you only need to cover five
spaces around it to receive ore as a bonus.

Tip for experienced players: if you place goods tiles in your placement area before the income phase, you will
then receive silver that you can use right away to possibly get bonuses as well. (For instance, the silver that
enabled the ore bonus in the example above could have been silver the player received that round.)

Phase 11: Update and Add New Mountain Strips

Mountain strips provide building resources that you can get • Then turn a new mountain strip face up and place the depicted
during the action phase (see the “Mountain and Trading Actions” goods on it. (This way there can be more face-up mountain strips
on page 15). than at the start of the game.)

Acquire your resources here.

• In this phase, remove the leftmost building resource (i.e. closest
to the arrow) from each face-up mountain strip and return it to
the general supply. At the left, the mountain strip at the top is about to be removed.
At the right, the mountain strip at the bottom has just been
If all spaces but the last “2 silver” space are empty, remove the added.
two silver and the entire mountain strip.
• In the 4-player long game, there are not enough mountain strips
for all 7 rounds. You simply do not add any in round 7.

Phase 12: Remove Placed Vikings from the Action Board

Return your Vikings from the action board to your Thing Square.
(Then proceed with phase 1 of the next round.)

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 Anytime Actions
There is a variety of actions you can take literally at any time • Green tiles cannot be orthogonally adjacent to other
during the game (usually even during a main action). green tiles (diagonal adjacency is allowed). (An
illustration on your home board reminds you of that.)

Placing Goods on the Home Board

As mentioned several times before, at any time, you can place • Blue tiles can be adjacent to other blue tiles, as can silver coins
green craft products and blue luxury goods as well as silver coins to other silver coins, and ore tokens to other ore tokens.
and ore tokens on empty spaces in the placement area of your
home board, according to the following rules:
Occasionally, players will ignore this rule
unintentionally. If you notice the mistake
too late, see page 23 for a way to handle
The spaces with the big numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …) form the
that.
“income diagonal” (see “Income” on page 9). You can only
cover a space in the income diagonal if you also cover (or have
already covered) all spaces:
• to the left of that space,
• When you place a goods tile, you cannot place it on top of
• below that space,
another goods tile that is already there (not even partially). You
• as well as all spaces in the square to the bottom left of
can, however, cover spaces with goods symbols (see Bonus on
the space.
page 7). Keep in mind, goods spaces are considered covered
Spaces with goods symbols are considered covered already.
already
• Each goods tile you place must be placed within the bounds of
the placement area.
In the early game, you can cover
3 numbers with a single tile (here:
The home board has three
using a robe). (Unfortunately, if
additional spaces at the top
you do, you will also cover the
right, so that you can place
mead space, losing a potential
bigger tiles like the treasure
mead bonus.)
chest during the end game.
In the example depicted
to the left, you could
place a “skin and
bones” or “ wool” tile To avoid negative points, you are explicitly
to cover income spaces allowed to place goods tiles wherever you
“3” and “4” at the like in the placement area, as long as you
same time, because by do not cover income spaces that you are
doing so all required not allowed to cover (see the example
spaces will also be below).
covered.

• The placement areas depict growing squares in order to remind

you of these placement rules.
• The special tiles are considered to be blue and follows the same
rules as the blue good tiles.

Here is an example of how to cover the spaces in the top right

corner without covering the income spaces that you are not
allowed to cover.

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 Placing Goods on the Exploration Boards
As with the home board: at any time, you may place green craft A lot of goods spaces on the exploration boards are surrounded
products and blue luxury goods as well as silver coins and ore by less than 8 other spaces, which makes it easier to enclose them
tokens on empty spaces of the exploration boards, according to for the bonus.
the same rules.

Note that there might be spaces in the

center of an exploration board that
you are not allowed to cover with
goods, like the “5” on Bear Island.
These spaces have a very prominent
green border.
To unlock the rune stone and ore bonus on Bear Island, you only
need to cover six spaces.
Placing Goods on the House Tiles
At any time, you may place orange farm goods, red animal
products, green craft products, and blue luxury goods as well as
silver coins on empty spaces of your houses.

Orange tiles cannot be orthogonally adjacent to other orange tiles,

and red tiles cannot be orthogonally adjacent to other red tiles
(diagonal adjacency is allowed, as shown in the illustration on
the house tiles). Note that you cannot cover the pillar spaces in the long house.

The following applies to all of the anytime actions:

Once you place a goods tile on a board or house, you cannot take
it back. Although you cannot take back tiles once
you placed them, we still recommend
You may, of course, test tile placements in order to plan ahead, as you place as many as you can before the
long as you take them back before continuing. income and bonus phases. Especially the
large tiles as they belong on the boards
and not in your supply.

Buying Ships
At any time, you may buy a ship by paying its cost in silver. The
cost of a ship is equal to its value (also depicted on the supply
Each whaling boat costs 3 silver,
board for ships). Instead of buying ships, you may build them
each knarr 5 silver, and
with wood by using a “Ship Building” action space (see page 15).
each longship 8 silver.
• The whaling boats are small boats.
• Knarrs and longships are considered “large ships.”
Each ship you acquire must be placed in your bay, on a landing
The knarr costs 5 silver. stage of appropriate size (you cannot place whaling boats on the
larger spaces).

Changing Silver
At any time, you may make change with your silver
coins. Silver comes in denominations of “1 silver”, The silver coins are designed such that
“2 silver”, “4 silver”, and “10 silver”. you can place them in the placement areas
and houses.

Arming
At any time (including immediately before, but not during an
Longship are used for raiding and pillaging
action), you may place ore from your supply on the designated
(see pages 17 - 18).
spaces of your whaling boats and longships.

You may not take back the ore you place on your ships.
Whaling boats are used for whaling (see
page 18). They show 1 preprinted ore and
provide space for 1 more ore.

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 Occupations
Farmer
Many occupations provide actions you can take at any time. (see Modifier

page 21). from

(or )

The blue background color indicates an anytime action on an

occupation card. 48 A
You can return
ore to your sup
such
ply.
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Giving Away
You cannot simply give away or discard goods, ships, boards, or
cards outside of an action.

The Action Spaces

The action board features a variety of action spaces. (How and
when to use them has been explained in the “Phase 5: Actions”
section on page 9.)

General rule:
Some actions require you to have a specific type of ship. You may
use the same ship multiple times per round for different actions. All the actions mentioned in the example
above are explained on the following
Example: You have a single longship in your bay. With this ship, pages. Most action spaces (like the
you can production spaces) have a rather simple
• head out on a raid first effect, so we will explain those first.
• then explore “Newfoundland”,
• and emigrate that same round.

Production spaces
On the green spaces of the action board, On this space, you receive wood and ore
you receive exactly what is depicted, from the general supply. While you only
e.g., 1 stockfish. ever get 1 ore here, you also get 1 wood
per player: in a 1/2/3/4 player game, this is
In particular: 1/2/3/4 wood.

Here, you receive 1 milk if you have

1  cattle, 2 milk if you have 2 cattle, and In general:
3 milk if you have 3 or more cattle. If a good costs silver, the price is printed
below a purse icon at the left of the action
Here, you receive 1 wool if you have space. 1 cattle and 1 milk cost a total of
1 sheep, 2 wool if you have 2 sheep, and 3 silver.
3 wool if you have 3 or more sheep.

Here, you receive 1 spices and 1 silver.

Additionally, you receive 2 milk if you
have at least 1 cattle, and 1 wool if you
have at least 1 sheep.

Tip: Most new players overrate the Weekly Market. Your Vikings are well provided for during the harvests.
Usually, you will not need much more food than that.
On the other hand, they tend to overlook the long-term potential of animal breeding.

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 Exchange Spaces
The dark yellow action spaces relate to house building, ship On this space, you may spend green “hide”
building, and crafting. On these, you exchange something (usually and “linen” tiles to make “clothing”, for
building resources from your supply) for something else, but only which you also receive 2 silver.
once. In particular:

On the action space at the top left of the At the Smithy, you may spend 1 ore to
game board, you can pay 2 wood to receive receive a tile with a forge tongs symbol.
a shed (see page 13 for what it does).

Here, you may build a “stone house” and “long house” for 1 and Jewelry tiles show a forge tongs symbol …
2 stone, respectively (see page 13 for what they do). … as well as all the special tiles.

Here, you receive 4 silver. Additionally,

you may exchange a green “wool” tile for
a “robe” tile, and/or a blue “silverware”
Note that the number of shed and house tiles is limited. tile for a “jewelry” tile.

Here, you may build the indicated ship (and only that ship) for
1 or 2 wood:

On these three action spaces, you can exchange stone and/or wood
or ore for blue “rune stone” and “chest” tiles. On the first two of
The number of ships is not limited. The only limitation is the these spaces, you also receive 1 silver.
number of landing stages in your bay: you can only have up to
3 whaling boats and up to 4 large ships (knarrs, longships). Playing a single occupation costs 1 stone
or 1 ore, and you receive 1 silver (see
also “Occupation” on page 20).
On this space, you can choose what to get
for 2 stone and 2 wood: either you take
a stone house and a longship, or a long Here, you may exchange a whaling boat* for
house and a knarr. a knarr (if you wish), before using that knarr
or another large ship to emigrate (more on
emigration on page 17).
Here, you may exchange an orange “flax”
tile for the larger and more valuable green * If the whaling boat you exchange has ore
“linen” tile. on it, you lose that ore.

Mountain and Trading Actions

Mountain Actions The “Take 3+2 Building Resources” action
Some of the golden brown action spaces allow you to take allows you to take (up to) 3 items from one
building resources and silver from mountain strips. mountain strip and (up to) 2 items from another
mountain strip. You may not take 5 resources
When taking resources from a mountain strip, always from the same mountain strip.
take them from left to right (i.e., goods closest to the
arrow first).

The 2 silver at the right are considered a single

item. After taking the last “2 silver”, remove the For instance, you could take 3 wood from one mountain strip, and
mountain strip from the game. an ore and the silver from another.

The “Take 2 Building Resources” action The “Take 2+2+2+2 Building Resources”
allows you to take (up to) 2 items from one action allows you to take (up to) 2 items
mountain strip of your choice. each from (up to) four mountain strips.
Here, you cannot take 4 or 6 items from
You may choose a mountain strip with fewer resources than you one mountain strip.
are allowed to take (you may not take resources from another
mountain strip to make up for it).

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Trading Actions Other action spaces on the game action board allow you to
The other golden brown action spaces allow you to exchange exchange more than 2 goods.
goods in your supply for more valuable ones.
One of the action spaces described here
also provides 4 weapon cards. This means
The “ñ1 Good” action allows you to exchange exactly 1 goods you draw 4 random weapons (and place
tile for the next more valuable one: either an orange for a red one, them face up in front of you).
or a red for a green one, or a green for a blue one. The old and
new tile must have the same shape and dimensions.

For example, you could use a Before you exchange your goods for more
“ñ 1 Good” action to exchange valuable ones via “ñGoods” actions,
“game meat” for “skin and bones” check how many and which goods you will
once. need for the Feast phase. We recommend
you place those goods on the “Banquet
The “ñ2 Goods” action allows you to Table” during the action phase ahead
exchange up to 2 goods tiles for the next of time.
more valuable one. Both tiles may be of the
same type, but you may not “upgrade” a
single tile twice (from orange to green, or
from red to blue). Blue, yellow, red, and brown action spaces are special. Blue
stands for overseas trading, yellow for emigration, red for hunting,
The “ññ2Goods” action allows you raiding, and pillaging. Brown is the color of occupation cards.
to “upgrade” 2 goods twice: you may
exchange an orange good for a green one,
or a red good for a blue one. (In addition,
you also take 4 resources from one
mountain strip.)

Knarr Action Spaces

Blue is the color of action spaces that require a knarr, providing Special Sale
blue luxury goods for trade. The “Special Sale” action space is located in the third column of
the action board.

Overseas Trading

Each special tile shows a silver cost. If you have at

least one knarr, you can buy (up to) 2 special tiles
by paying their cost. (The English Crown is the only
special tile that may not be bought. We did ask Her
The two “Overseas Trading” action spaces are located in the first and
Majesty Queen Elizabeth II when she was in Frankfurt
second column of the action board. On overseas trading spaces, you
on June 25th, 2015. She rejected our request in her
can pay 1 silver to turn any number of different green goods tiles to
usual polite manner.)
their blue side. To do so, however, you must have at least one knarr
in your bay.

• Green tiles in the placement areas of your boards may not be

turned to their blue sides (you may not bypass the rule that
disallows the placement of green tiles next to each other).

The Glass Beads cost nothing; the Helmet

costs 1 silver.

In this example, during a single “Overseas Trading” action, you may turn
1 oil, 1 hide, 1 wool, 1 linen, and 1 clothing to their blue sides. (The other linen
tile must remain on its green side.)

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 Emigration
• To take this action, you must pay an amount of silver equal to
the current round.
• In the very rare case that you emigrated so frequently that there
is no more space for another ship on the Banquet Table, you
Yellow is the color of emigration. On “Emigration” action spaces, cannot take the emigration action anymore.
you may turn a knarr or a longship* in your possession to its back
side and place it on the leftmost space of your “Banquet Table.”
This tile is no longer a ship, but it reduces the amount of food you You do not lose any Vikings in the process
have to serve during a feast (see page 10). of emigration. (Your Viking figures
represent the leaders of your tribes, and
they would never abandon you.)

*You lose the ore on the longship, if any.

The next time you emigrate, place the second ship to the right of
the first one. As you can see, each time you emigrate, you need
less food for the feast. In this example, the next feast will only
require covering 5 spaces.

Raiding, Pillaging, and Hunting

Red action spaces provide actions that require you to roll a die. Raiding
To take a “Raiding” action, you must have at
least one longship. It does not matter whether
The orange eight-sided die is used on
or not there is ore on the ship (see “Anytime
action spaces that depict an orange die
Actions” on page 12), because you may not
symbol. The same applies to the blue
use it for this action anyway.
twelve-sided die on action spaces with a
blue die symbol.

In general: Success Failure

When raiding (with the orange die) and pillaging (with the blue Every blue goods tile has a Your raid automatically
die), you want to roll high. sword value. After you roll the fails if your battle result
orange eight-sided die, you can is 5 or less.
take exactly one blue goods tile Regardless of the
with a sword value equal to or result, you may
lower than you rolled.* Each willingly declare your
stone and “long sword” weapon raid a failure. Upon
card you spend increases your failure, you receive a
On spaces with a die symbol at the top of the action board, you
die roll by 1 (even above 8). This consolatory 1 stone and
want to roll low.
modified value is considered 1 long sword**** from
your “battle result.” the general supply.

In each case, you may roll the die up to three times. (Each re-roll
invalidates the previous roll.) You can stop rolling at any time. Sword value
When finished (and after modifying the roll, if need be), announce
your battle result. Then declare your die action a success or
failure. At the left of the “Raiding” action space, there are stone
and sword symbols. These symbols serve two purposes.

The following action spaces are each followed by an example. • They show which goods and weapons you may spend to
increase your roll.
• They remind you of the consolation prize you receive upon
failure.
The symbols on the “Pillaging” and “Hunting” action spaces
are to be treated the same way.

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 Example of a Failed Raiding Attempt
You have a longship and take a “Raiding” action. 3 Let us talk a little bit about the luck factor in this game. Rolling
dice is frowned upon in development games—with good
The amount of ore on your longship is irrelevant, reason. In this game, failure is designed such that it is only
because you may not use it for raiding anyway. You marginally worse than, for example, taking 2 stone (compared
take the orange die and roll 4 on your first roll, and 5 on the to stone and long sword) or 2 wood (see failure in the next
second. You want to do better, but you only roll 3 on your final section) from a mountain strip. When you fail,
roll. If you spend 2 stone and 1 long sword, the most you could your next roll is more likely to succeed. Bad
get would be a battle result of 6, which is a rune stone. You rolls do not prevent success, they just delay it
decide it is better to declare the raid a failure and take your a little. For me, it is an essential part of the
consolatory 1 stone and 1 long sword. game to provide that feeling of adventure.

Pillaging
As with “Raiding”, you want to roll high when pillaging. Example of a Successful Pillaging Attempt
You have a longship and 2 ore on it. You have 1 ore in your
supply, which you decide to place on the longship before you
take a “Pillaging” action. You take the blue die and roll 4 on
your first roll. You could stop here, but you want to do better.
Your second roll is 6. Since you only have one roll left, you
To do so, you must have a longship. If you have more than one decide to stop right here. You spend 1 long sword for a final
longship, you must use the longship with the most ore on it. battle result of 10: 6 from the roll, 3 from the ore on your
longship, and 1 from the long sword. With that battle result,
you take 1 “Jewelry” goods tile.

Success Failure
When pillaging, add 1 to Your raid automatically
your dice roll for each ore fails if your battle result is
on your longship (even 5 or less. You may willingly
above 12), keeping the declare it a failure, regardless
ore. After you roll the blue of the result.
Hunting Game, Laying a Snare and Whaling
twelve-sided die, you can Upon failure, you receive When hunting game and laying a snare, you roll the orange eight-
take exactly one blue goods a consolatory 1 stone and sided die. When whaling, you roll the blue twelve-sided die. In all
tile with a sword value 1 long sword**** from the of these cases, you want to roll low.
equal to or lower than you general supply. Additionally,
rolled.* You can spend stone after each failed pillaging
and long swords from your attempt, you may return
supply to increase the roll 1 Viking from the respective
by 1 per item spent. This action space to your Thing
modified value is considered Square and use it again later
your “battle result”. that round.

Success Failure
When hunting, laying snares, If you declare your hunting
and whaling, reduce the attempt a failure, you do not
value of your roll by one for have to pay anything. (You
each ore (even preprinted may not declare a result of 0
ore) on the whaling boat(s) as a failure.)
you are using to perform the Upon failure, you receive
The English Crown has the highest sword
action (you keep the ore). a consolatory 1 wood and
value and is worth 2 points.
This can lead to a negative 1 weapon**** of the proper
value; any negative value type** from the general
is treated as a 0. Pay a supply. Additionally, when
number of wood or proper you fail laying a snare, you
At the bottom left of the “Pillaging” action spaces,
weapons** equal to this may return 1 Viking from
you can see a Viking symbol and an arrow pointing
value to declare a successful the action space to your
left. This is a reminder of the consolatory Viking you
action and receive the reward Thing Square. When you
receive upon failure.
depicted on the action fail whaling, you may even
space.*** return 2 Vikings. You may
*When taking a blue goods tile, you can take a regular blue tile
use the returned Vikings
or one of the special tiles (on the oval supply board).
again later that round.

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 **These are “bow and arrow”, “snare”, and “spear” for hunting At the bottom left of the “Whaling” action spaces, you
game, laying a snare, and whaling, respectively. can see two Viking symbols and an arrow pointing left.
This reminds you of the 2 consolatory Vikings you can
return to your Thing Square on failure.

When given the choice to spend a weapon Peculiarities of Whaling

instead of wood, spend the weapon. As There are two different “Whaling” action spaces.
with real life, wood is more versatile than
weapons. On the major “Whaling” action space
(at the left), you can use one to three
of your whaling boats. In column 4 (at
***For hunting game, you receive 1 hide and 1 game meat. the right), there is a minor “Whaling”
For laying a snare, you receive 1 fur and 1 “snare” weapon action space, on which you can only use
card. For whaling, you receive 1 oil, 1 “skin and bones” a single whaling boat.
tile, and 1 whale meat.

Example of a Successful Whaling Attempt

You have 2 whaling boats, each equipped with 1 additional ore.
Before you take the “Whaling” action in the third column of
the action board, you decide to purchase another whaling boat,
Hunting game Laying a snare Whaling but you have no ore to place on it. You take the blue die and
roll 8 on your first roll. If you stopped right here, you would
Example of a Failed Game Hunting Attempt have to pay 3 spears/wood to be successful, because the 5 ore
You take a “Hunting Game” action. Since the “Hunting on your whaling boats would reduce the 8 to 3. So you roll
Game” action space in the first column is already taken, you again, rolling 4 on your second roll. Subtracting 5 from that
place 2 Vikings on the “Hunting Game” action space in the results in a negative value, which is treated as a 0. Since your
second column. You take the orange die and try to roll low. roll resulted in 0, you must stop immediately and declare your
Your first roll is 3, but you are not happy about it. So you try attempt a success.
again and roll 7, which is way too high. Your third roll is 4.
If you spent, for instance, 2 wood and
2 “bow and arrow” weapon cards, you
could declare the hunt a success, but you
decide that the cost is too high. So you
declare your attempt a failure and receive
your consolatory 1 wood and 1 “bow and
arrow” weapon card. (Even though you
failed, you do not receive a Viking back.
You would only receive one back after a
You may wonder why whaling with 3 whaling boats only
failed “Laying a Snare” attempt, which works much the same
requires 3 Vikings, while whaling with a single whaling boat
as “Hunting Game”—the only difference being that you would
requires 4. The latter is only a minor action space, meaning it
use snares instead.)
is intended for players for whom whaling is just a side project,
since they have so few whaling boats.

Similarly, there are two types of action spaces

****When you receive a consolatory weapon card (for failing)
that require a longship. Pillaging works best
or a reward snare (for successfully laying a snare), take
with longships that are equipped with lots
this weapon from the face up discard pile. If you cannot
of ore. Raiding and Plundering can be done
find one in there, look through the draw pile and take it
with longships that are low on ore.
from there. Then shuffle the draw pile.

2 (your die roll) minus

2 (ore on the ship)
2 The “Plundering” action space is also
equals a result of 0. considered a red action space. Here, you can
extort ransom money in the form of a blue
If your battle result is 0, you may not declare the attempt a failure. “silver hoard” goods tile without battle—but
You must stop immediately, and you may not re-roll. you must have at least two longships to do so.

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Orange is the color of exploration. By exploring, you may • “Iceland”, “Greenland”, and “Bear Island”
add exploration boards to your home board to gain additional each require a knarr or longship, as well as
placement areas. There are four unique exploration boards— 2 Vikings.
which side faces up depends on the current round (see phase 3 • Places on the American continent (“Baffin
of a round on page 8). When taking an exploration action, place Island”, “Labrador”, and “Newfoundland”)
the required number of Vikings on the action space and take the each require 3 Vikings and a longship.
corresponding exploration board.

If there is silver on the exploration board you claim, place it in

your supply.

The exploration boards are explained in detail on page 15 of the

In all of the above cases, you keep the ship you explore with.
appendix.

• In order to take “Shetland” or “Faroe Islands”

exploration board, you must have a whaling
boat, knarr, or longship, and you must place
1 Viking. This is only possible on the action
space requiring 1 Viking.
Occupation
You start the game with a single light brown occupation card (see Bonus for Placing Three Vikings
Setup), which you keep hidden in your hand. During the game,
you will receive additional dark brown occupation cards. You
must play an occupation card before you can use its effect (see
also the following section “About the Occupation Card Effects”).

On this action space, you draw a random dark Each time you place the three required Vikings on an action space
brown occupation card from the draw pile in the third column, before taking the action, you receive a dark
and put it into your hand. Additionally, you brown occupation card from the draw pile into your hand. You
receive 1 silver. may look at that card immediately. (This bonus is only available
on action spaces in the third column.)

Here, you may pay 1 stone or 1 ore to play an The previously mentioned action space is located in the third
occupation card from your hand. Additionally, column. It is the only action space, on which you may draw an
you receive 1 silver. occupation card and play it right away.

Here, you may play up to 2 occupation cards Bonus for Placing Four Vikings
from your hand, one after another.

On this action space, you may play up to

4 occupation cards from your hand, one
after another. (An interesting interaction Each time you place the four required Vikings on an action space in
between this action space and another rule the fourth column, before or after taking the action, you may play an
is explained below.) occupation card from your hand. (This bonus is only available on
action spaces in the fourth column.)
• You can use the effect of the played card immediately.
• If you do not have any occupation cards left in your hand, you
cannot play one, obviously.

Extension Tiles in the 4-Player Game

The grey action spaces on the extension tiles allow you to use
an action space in the same column that is occupied by another
player. (You cannot imitate unoccupied action spaces or those
occupied by your Vikings.) In each 4-player game, only two
of the four columns feature imitation: either the first or second In this example, the first and fourth column feature imitation.
column, and either the third or fourth column. This is determined
at random during setup. • Like the other action spaces, imitation action spaces can only be
used once per round.

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Every occupation card has the same layout. Its name is at the top Anytime Cards
left, its point value at the top right, and its effect at the bottom. You can recognize anytime cards by their blue
background color. These cards have a permanent
Tanner

effect. You can do what is stated on the card at any time

The Slash (before scoring) and any number of times. The Tanner
Gerber
Several card effects use a slash (/) in their description. Tradesman lets you exchange 1 salt meat for 1 hide at any time. 47 a

Basically, the slash stands for “either—or”, but we

would like to illustrate its use with some examples:
The Tradesman lets you exchange 1 silverware for The yellow arrow on anytime cards indicates that you
either 1 chest or 1 silk. can do the exchange at any time and any number of
54 A

times during the course of the game.

If a card has multiple elements with slashes (/), these Hide Buyer
47 A

elements relate to each other in their respective order. 2/4/6

Here, you can choose whether you want to spend 2, 4, or 6 There are some anytime cards without a yellow arrow. Modifier

silver to receive 1, 2, or 3 hides, respectively. These bend the rules for you. The Modifier allows
1/2/3
from

you to take ore from your ships back into your supply
86 A

(which is not normally allowed). You can return such

ore to your supply.
39 C

It is important that you only choose at most one of Helper in Time

of Need

the listed elements. This card provides either 1 bean,

No harvest

1 grain, or 1 cabbage, depending on whether you have

with exactly
1/2/3

1, 2, or 3 whaling boats, respectively. Each Time Cards

You can recognize each time cards by their red background color.
93 C

These cards have two differently shaded parts. The light red part
Consequently, if you have 2 whaling boats, you receive grain and states when the effect activates (usually in form of a condition),
no beans. (You could argue that 2 boats also include 1 boat, but the dark red one explains the action you may then take. Priest

this is not the case in this game.) Consequently, you may take the action each time the
condition is met. Immediately before each time you use before taking

an “Overseas Trading” action space (light red part), you

the action

Every occupation card belongs to one of the following categories: receive 1 oil (dark red part).
149 A

Immediate Cards Some cards—like the Priest—explicitly state whether the

You can recognize immediate cards by their yellow background card comes into effect before or after you meet the condition.
color. These cards have an immediate and one-time only effect (The Priest, for instance, gives you the oil before the action,
that you must carry out when you play them. After that, the effect in case you wish to use the oil right away during the Overseas
becomes irrelevant. Only the point value will matter, Trading action.)
Dragonslayer

namely for scoring. For example, when you play the 2 2

Dragonslayer, you can immediately exchange 2 snares
Proficient
Hunter

and 2 spears for 1 treasure chest. Other cards provide exchange actions or bend the when rolling

65A
rules for you. The Proficient Hunter lets you roll up to
4 times instead of 3.
roll up to

The grey arrow on immediate cards indicates that you

4 times
instead of 3

cannot do the exchange at any time, but only immediately

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and at most once. (For instance, you could not exchange 4 snares Exchange actions on each time cards are represented by a
and 4 spears for 2 treasure chests.) You can only do an exchange grey arrow (as on immediate cards), because the exchange
multiple times if a card explicitly says so, using terms like cannot be done at any time. However, some cards can say “multiple
“multiple times” or “once per …”. times” or “once per …” to modify that.

Some cards provide two actions. When you play such a card, you can
choose which actions you want to take.
Apart from exchange actions, some cards allow you to
If a card shows two immediate actions and you decide
Cattle Breeder

take specific actions on the action board or go through

Hornblower

1
Do an Animal

to take both, you must carry them out in order. Here

Breeding phase

specific round phases. The Cattle Breeder lets you go

1 Hunting
for you only. Game
action

through an additional “Animal Breeding” phase just you would have to hunt game first, then you could lay 2 1 Laying

a snare.
a Snare

by yourself.
action
35A
85 C

Fruit Picker

In other cases, you simply receive goods without

having to pay anything.
43 A

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If you only intend to use cards from deck A for now, you can skip Sail Patcher The Sail Patcher requires 3 large ships. If you already
the following section. Only decks B and C contain as soon as as soon as
you have
3 large have 3 large ships when playing this card, you can use
cards. its effect immediately.
ships

3/2/1
if your total round
income is at most:
4/9/30

As Soon As Cards
max.
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• You can recognize as soon as cards by their green background Cutter This card explicitly states a future point in time. As
color. Like the each time cards, these cards have two differently soon as you acquire your next knarr, you immediately
Operator

next

receive 1 stockfish and 1 silver for each knarr you

time you

shaded parts. The light green part states when the effect activates
acquire
a knarr

(usually in form of a condition), the dark green one explains the per
knarr
1
1
then  have.
action you can then take. In this, these cards are no different
179 B

from each time cards.

If the above does not answer all of your questions about specific
The difference is that the effect of an as soon as card activates card effects, please refer to page 2 of the appendix. It explains all
only once per game—namely when the condition is met for the of the occupations in alphabetical order.
first time. This could be the moment you play the card or a future
point in time.

R unning O ut of C omponents
For now, you can skip the following section. Come back to it if Building resources: In case you run out of building resources,
you run out of components. look at the back sides of the seven “Thing Penalty” tiles and take
the appropriate one as replacement.
• There are only a few components that are limited by the provided
amounts.

Houses: There is a limited number of sheds and houses in the

game. If you run out, you may not take any more of those tiles.
This tile stands for 5 stone.
Exploration boards: Since there are only four exploration
boards, players may only explore up to four times during the Weapon cards: When the draw pile runs out of cards, shuffle the
course of the game. discard pile and form a new face down draw pile. If you are about
to receive a consolatory weapon and you cannot find a proper one
• Ships, goods tiles, building resources, and weapon cards are in both the discard and draw pile, proceed as with the building
considered to have an unlimited supply. resources. Each penalty tile is worth 3 weapons of one kind.

Ships: Improvise if you run out of a certain type of ship.

Goods tiles: If you run out of goods, you could return goods to
the general supply from sections of your placement areas that have
already been fully covered. You can then either cover them with
other goods or silver, or simply remember they were already covered.

E nd of the G am e and S coring

The game ends immediately after the Feast phase of the final The player whose possessions are worth the most wins the game.
round. You do not receive any bonus during the final round. The points values of your boards and tiles are printed on the
shield icons.

In case of a tie, there are multiple winners.

Positive Points
• If you have sheds or stone houses, you can place wood and • Ships: each whaling boat is worth 3 points, each knarr 5 points, and
stone left in your supply on the designated spaces of those tiles. each longship 8 points.
(The tiles show you exactly how many they require.) • Emigrations: each knarr used for emigration is worth 18 points,
• If you have goods tiles left in your supply, you can still place each such longship 21 points.
them in the placement areas of your boards and houses, • Exploration: The Exploration boards vary in value (4 to 38
if possible. points). Their value is printed in the top right corner.
Then score your points using the provided scoring pad. • Sheds and houses: sheds are worth 8 points, stone houses 10
points, and long houses 17 points, as printed in the top right corner.

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• Sheep and cattle: each sheep is worth 2 points (3 points if Also, do not forget your Thing Penalties, if any (see “Phase 9:
pregnant), each cattle is worth 3 points (4 points if pregnant). Feast” on page 11).
• Occupations: the value of your occupation cards is printed in • It may occur that a player places goods tiles adjacent to each other
the top right corner. Only occupation cards in play count. even though they were not allowed to do so. Correct the mistake
• Silver: determine the total of silver in your supply. Silver on immediately when that happens. If you notice a mistake too late,
your boards is worthless. you can punish the culprit during the scoring with 1 Thing Penalty
• Final income: do not pay out the income of the final round; for each wrongly placed pair of tiles. Here are 2 examples:
instead, write it down in the “Final Income” category of the
scoring pad.
• The player who owns the “English Crown” special tile receives In the example on the left, a player has
2 additional points, regardless of whether it is in their supply or placed three green goods in a row, so
on one of their boards. there are two green-green pairs. This is
punishable by two Thing Penalties for a
Negative Points total of -6 points.
• From your total of positive points, subtract the negative points
for your boards and buildings, including your home board and
exploration boards as well as your sheds and houses. In the example on the right, the mistake
is more severe. The three goods have
been placed such that any two of them
are adjacent to each other. So there
are three green-green pairs, which is
punishable by three Thing Penalties for
a total of -9 points.

T he S olo G am e
In the solo game, use whichever side of the home board you like. Notes on the Phases of a Round:
You will need a second set of Vikings of a different color. • Once you are familiar with the solo game, you can skip phase 3.
• Place 1 Viking (2 Vikings in the short game) of one color (here: If you would like to know which exploration boards are available
red) on round space 1 at the “Banquet Table”, and another in any given round, check the appendix on page 15. It will also
2 Vikings each on spaces 3, 5, and 7 (the latter only in the long tell you how big the reward for exploring a specific board is.
game). • Always skip phase 6. (You have the privilege to always be the
• Place 2 Vikings of the other color (here: yellow) each on round first player.)
spaces 2, 4, and 6.
In the solo game, I prefer to lay out more
mountain strips during setup than required.
I use a pencil to mark how many of those
mountain strips are available to me at each
time. This way I can go much quicker through
phase 11 and enjoy the game more.

• Place 5 Vikings of the first color (red) on the Thing Square,

and 5 Vikings (6 Vikings in the short game) of the other color
(yellow) on the “waiting space” of your home board. • In phase 12, you can look at the “Banquet Table” to see which
• Remove the remaining Viking of the second color from the Vikings you must remove from the action board.
game. (In the short game, remove 1 Viking of the first color A final score of 100 is considered a very good score for the solo game.
instead.) In the long game, you can get there with experience, but in the short
game this is rather difficult to achieve. If you like the challenge, be our
Play the game as though it were a multiplayer game, taking one guest and beat it. (Due to the blocking Vikings, the solo game usually
turn after another. Since you do not have any opponents, leave the has lower scores than the multiplayer game.)
Vikings from the previous round on the game action board, blocking
the action spaces. This is why you have Vikings of two colors.
If you like, you can look through the
light brown occupation cards and choose
Course of a Round:
one for the start of the game, instead of
Play the first round as in the multiplayer game. In phase 12, do drawing one at random. This way you can
not take any Vikings from the action board. Instead, move the 5 explore specific aspects of the game.
Vikings of the other color from the “waiting space” to the Thing
Square. In round 2, you receive 2 additional Vikings of the other
color. At the end of round 2, leave the Vikings you placed in round
2 on the action board and return the Vikings from the first round to
your home board. Place these Vikings in round 3. Continue play
in this fashion until the final round.

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 C redits
“A Feast for Odin” was published in June 2016 and designed in May 2013. Florian Racky, Ronny Vorbrodt, Rolf Raupach, Stefan Wahoff, Tanja Muck,
Extensive testing started in August 2014. Peter  Muck, Tim Koch, Christoph  Post, Bianca Bartsch, Claudia  Görldt,
Frank Heeren organized the realization of this heavy game. Dennis  Lohausen Patrick Enger, Gabi Köpke, Gernot Köpke, Tanja Techmann, Torsten Techmann,
was responsible for its illustrations and graphic design. Uwe Rosenberg wrote Lisa Hofmann, Markus  Habenberger, Witold Kliszczynski, Raimund Kessler,
the rules and also supervised the editing process of the game. Christof Tisch Jutta Böhm, Michael Gnade, Karola Köhler, Lea Reinisch, Patrick  Hoffbauer,
typeset the occupation cards, Hans-Georg Schneider the rule book. Grzegorz Dani  Kemmler, Antonio  Messina, Jörg Freudenstein, Kerstin  Herdzina,
Kobiela did the elaborate English translation. His meticulous way of working led Ragnar Deist, Jürgen  Dissinger, Désirée Höher, Andrea  Neis, Stefan Ziemerle,
to many linguistic improvements. The editing team would like to thank Gernot Oliver Heck, Sebastian Dames, Lisa Roggenbuck, Anna Birkelbach, Ralf Seifert.
Köpke for the historical accompanying texts, which were supplemented by
Uwe Rosenberg and translated to English by Gernot himself. Also many thanks Z-Man Games wishes to thank Patrick Korner, Adam Marostica, and Michael
to the proof-readers of the rule book: Janina Kleinemenke, Gabriele Goldschmidt, Young for proofreading the epic-length documents of the grand journey that is
Grzegorz Kobiela, and Mario Wiese. Gernot would like to thank the proof- “A Feast for Odin.”
readers of his accompanying texts: Kerstin Herdzina and Steffen  Jost. Last but
not least many thanks to all play-testers, in chronologic order: Andreas Odendahl, Special thanks to Andreas “Ode” Odendahl for his
Lasse Goldschmidt, Gabriele Goldschmidt, Sascha  Hendriks, Mechthild  Kanz, crucial idea to implement bonuses. He had already
Reinhold  Kanz, Kai  Poggenkamp, Thorsten  Roth, Janina  Kleinemenke, proved his outstanding aptitude for complex board
Jennifer  Jünger, Marc  Jünger, Hagen  Dorgathen, Corinna  Büttemeier, games with “La Granja.”
Stephanie  Michaelis, Petra  Zardock, Anja  Beduhn, Michael  Speckmann,
Ingo Böckmann, Frank Heeren, Pan Pollack, Helge Ostertag, Jens Drögemüller,
Thorsten Hanson, Stephan Rink, Christof Tisch, Dirk Schmitz, Kevin Farnworth,
Maxime Gauthier-Kwan, Anthony Gascon, Emily Berthelet, Klaus Lottmann,