Kubbin.com: the new face of Kubb, the game

Before man knew how to tie his own shoes (before he even knew what shoelaces were) Vikings sailed the great seas and in between pillaging villages they would water ski behind their large Viking ships. If you’d ever seen Asterix and Cleopatra you’d understand how this was done.

Enjoyable though it was there was still something missing from the hard and fast life of a Viking. So they took to the wooded lands of Gottland, a small island off the coast of Sweden land and created small Viking communities in an attempt to domesticate their voracious hungers and cat stealing tendencies. So they gave up plundering, cleared the forests, and built little towns.

However, strong and well learned their behaviors were and stealing and killing and such ran in their blood.

Because of these age-old habits, these burly, bearded men and women didn’t last long with out picking fights between their neighbors.

One day the head of the main Viking clan, his name just happening to be Erik “Long-beard” Kubbin, sought inspiration as to how to stop all the fighting and killing between his clan members.

As he sat there and pondered on his tree stump he was alarmed to find that thought interrupted by a small log hitting him in the head. Though anger welled up in this father of all Vikings, he saw opportunity in the situation and the game of Kubbin was born… (to be continued next month).

We’re creating a community of Kubb lovers and are providing them with all the means to play the game they love. Kubbin.com is the official site of the American National Kubbin'  Association. Before it’s formal debut on the web the ANKA would like to get to know it’s members and the Kubb loving community as a whole.

All those who spend five minutes to fill out the brief and fun ANKA questionnaire will be entered to win some of the first edition sets of specially made Kubbin.com Game sets.