Sigtuna got burned down by Finnish, Karelians, Estonians or Estonian Vikings, and this was 1187...

I wouldn't be surprised if Stockholm started out as an attempt to protect the cities around Lake Mälaren from raids. It is not known why the city is called Stockholm but one theory is that ot comes from logs driven into the lake to control who goes in and out of the lake.

	▲	impossiblefork 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, and I think this specific incident may have motivated it, since it was founded not that much later.