Ep.20 - Mass graves of The Battle of Visby 1361

[@alexthorp9021]

Sounds to me like the people in town were trying to get rid of the poor farmers? How horrific for them.

[@nicktrueman224]

Replace them with cheaper labour. It certainly did sound like this

[@Backwardlooking]

Visited it during the summer festival recreating the Danish invasion.

[@zakikurniawan9955]

We should be grateful because such tragedies are rare nowadays

[@therovingrobin5938]

Ahem....Ukraine has entered the chat...

[@Wolfen443]

Now is worse, you often never even see the enemy trying to kill you either from 2,000 yards or 2,000 miles. So, they died that day so that we could have a record of what their lives and armor were like.

[@bobbytmp1322]

Uyghurs have entered the chat

[@carstenf279]

It has happened every year since.

[@Tom_Quixote]

I guess you don't follow the news much?

[@dominicconnor3437]

I think the bodies were bloated after a couple days and stripping it off the bodies would have been a nasty business so they just buried them.

[@gundarvarr1024]

Those are NOT LOCAL VISBY farmers, they are mercenaries and Danish troops who died. First local will take their relative bodies back to their village especially that island is quiet small. Those are perhaps those German mercenaries who would think twice to bring dead body back to german.

[@mr-x7689]

After a few days in the swedish sun during summer, you won't be able to see who is and who isent your relative. Even more so if animals have reached it. it's almost 2000 bodies, all of them messed up from the fighting, Odds are you either cant identifie your relative from the bloating, the damage from fighting, or from just the sheare noumber of bodies you have to go trough. Odds are also that people had already started being trown in to the massgraves before relatives hawe had enough tome to find them. Then you also got the odd ones out that dident have any realtives. Either by age, or by circomstance. Just like today, there were lots of people who lived on their own. But sure there were probably lots of merchenaries also who ended up dying from both sides there. I dont see why the danes would bring their faller mercenaries back to danemark after the fighting was done. Danish soliders perhaps, Officers definitly. Merchenaries? No. There's no obligations for funeral arrengements for forighn paid swords. They were most likely left where they fell, untill the native got rid of the bodies to prevent any outbrakes of sicknesses. + 2000 corspes gonna smell pretty fucking bad after a few days in the summer sun. --------------------- I had to deal with 2 poached and butchered boars, some f tard had dumped behind a guarage here in sweden, and haden't been found for a few days. Luckely this was at the arse crack end of winter, and it just had started to thaw. It had started to smell, but not to the point where it was overly bad. The smell was sort of sweet metalic, and wasent really an issiue. What was bad was the green-grey slimy/crunshy layer of dried muck that had formed on it. ANd when we tried to showel it in to bags, it kept "pouring" of the showels whith a sloppy splat sounds, and that made our stomacks start to get upset. My coworker started dry heawing, and after that it went fast down hill for me. We both swore that our boss would have to do it on his own next time. Neither of us got paid any where near well enough to deal with that kind shit. Moral of the story, if you are gonna poach somthing. FUCKING DO IT WHERE NO ONE HAVE TO COME AND CLEAN IT UP AFTER YOU!!! I'll let cops deal with the legal side of it. And i'll focus on the part of me having to clean up after the poacher.

[@nicktrueman224]

The singular maile shirt?

[@tinkertailor7385]

The moral of the story is.... Don't start fights you can't win.

[@mr-x7689]

Nah, the real moral is "Don't ever trust citrydwellers to have your back." It's allways the rural people who fight, while city dwellers bend ower and just take it. The farmers were willing to fight for what's theirs, while the city cowards already hade made arrengements to not have to fight even tho they had a city wall to protect them.