Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.
In 1831, in a sandbank on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis, someone found a hoard of little figures carved from walrus ivory and whales’ teeth, an army of grave-faced kings, queens, bishops and berserkers biting their shields: the Lewis Chessmen, made in Norway around 1150, when these islands were Norse. They are among the most beloved objects in the British Museum and National Museums Scotland, and their glowering faces are known the world over. Uig sands, where they surfaced, is a wild and beautiful shore.
Uig, Isle of Lewis (Outer Hebrides, Scotland). Source: The famous Norse walrus-ivory chess pieces, found 1831. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.
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