'Ard Banrigh'

Look for information on hnefatafl variants and you'll come across the mention of a small (7 x 7) Scottish version, called Ard Ri ('High King'). But dig a bit deeper, and you'll realise that there is no historical evidence for this, and so it's likely it's a modern invention. Of course, there is historical evidence for a 7 x 7 version of hnefatafl, but Ard Ri is said to have 8 + 16 pieces rather than the 4 + 8 pieces normally associated with a 7 x 7 size. 

Historical or not, I felt I had to add Ard Ri to my collection, and decided to create a board of raised squares covered by sari fabric (of which I still had some from creating the 'board' for my Kama Sutra set).

The central square is deliberately made higher than the other squares.

The sari fabric was fastened on the board using gold-coloured drawing pins.

So now for the pieces! In the end, I decided to remain Kama Sutra-esque, and order one queen plus 24 pawns from the erotic chess set made by oggtheclever (I have ordered several chess sets from him before; see here, here and here). The queen and 8 pawns are coloured 'antique bronze', and the remaining 16 pawns 'aged pewter'. I also decided to use the alternative 'cross' formation for the starting array of the queen side rather than the more common 'square' formation. 

So this is what the board looks like with the pieces on it:

Clearly, with all the pieces being female, I felt I needed to change the name of this set slightly; 'High King' isn't quite appropriate! So I looked up what 'High Queen' would be in Scottish Gaelic: 'Ard Banrigh'.