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There's a remarkable painting depicting that (Hanseatic-era Visby). I'd always been fascinated by the hats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdemar_Atterdag_hol
by perihelions 1y ago
There's a remarkable painting depicting that (Hanseatic-era Visby). I'd always been fascinated by the hats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdemar_Atterdag_holding_Visby_to_ransom,_1361#/media/File:Valdemar_Atterdag_brandskattar_Visby_(1882).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdemar_Atterdag_holding_Visb... ("Valdemar Atterdag holding Visby to ransom, 1361")
- wood_spirit 1y agoIn the battle the local farmers resisted the Danes as they retreated to the walls of the town where the townsfolk didn’t let them in. They were slaughtered and then the townsfolk surrendered. The mass graves of the farmers have been a major archeological excavation.
- woodpanel 1y agolooks like the urbanites always had a lack of compassion for the ruralites.