| ▲ | funnymunny 4 days ago |
| I would HIGHLY recommend visiting Visby (and Gotland, Sweden in general) for anyone interested in this sort of history |
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| ▲ | perihelions 4 days ago | parent [-] |
| 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_Visb... ("Valdemar Atterdag holding Visby to ransom, 1361") |
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| ▲ | wood_spirit 4 days ago | parent [-] | | In 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 4 days ago | parent [-] | | looks like the urbanites always had a lack of compassion for the ruralites. |
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