User:Hastein/sandbox

The problem with that was that it isn't correct, and is based on misconceptions. The modern terminology is not valid for the past. The Scandinavians did indeed call the chess piece bishop before, and the same is the case for the rook. The terms they use for these pieces in Scandinavia today weren’t even invented. They were imported from Central Europe to Scandinavia in the late 17th / early 18th century. This has been shown and described by chess historians, and even old dictionaries use these old terms. In addition medieval Scandinavian chess pieces in different museums show that they used the same pieces as those represented by The Lewis Chessmen.