The Largest Medieval Mass-Grave Ever Found | Medieval Dead | Real History

The Battle of Visby took place in 1361 on the island of Gotland. The bitter fighting between the forces of the Danish King and the forces from the Gutnish Country Yeomen resulted in a very one sided battle with the Danish forces taking a third less casualties than the Gotlandic natives. Several mass graves were found form the battle starting in the early 1900s. These huge caches provided us with an incredible insight into the brutal reality of medieval warfare.
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[@XibalbaScrolls3000bc]

So great to have awesome Documentaries

[@williamfindspeople4341]

It's one of the greatest Archeological finds ever, so many people died at one time no one had time to strip the dead.

[@rodneyfrost1674]

Excellent , Thank you.

[@benparrish672]

In The Norseman Saga, Caelan Erikson wields the Hell-Forged Spear & Glacius Ax & Trinity Shield while trying to procure Divine/Unholy weapons before The Fallen can tip the scales to Darkness.

[@dr.barrycohn5461]

A big fat maybe yes or maybe no.

[@mito88]

38:47 nice helmet.

[@thurin84]

im sure the visbians regretted not letting the militia in after they were conqured.

[@johnhenderson131]

23:44 July 27th, 1361! I can only think of one reason they didn’t salvage the armor….Summer!, likely very warm weather, by the time they had a chance to bury the dead (with hideous wounds, like a mace to the face) the dead would have been in a very advanced stage of decomposition. It must have been a very unpleasant nasty job that they just wanted them buried as quickly as possible with as little contact as possible and wasn’t there an outbreak of bubonic plague around that time? Y-Pestis? Although I can’t image an Ulfberth sword not being recovered unless it was custom or respect to bury a fallen soldier with his weapon.The only other explanation would be superstition ?!

[@fluffywaffles]

There was an image from the 1920s excavation of what seemed to be a coin purse bursting with coins. I thought to myself that surely a poor grave digger - if searching the corpses, would've snatched that up. Your idea makes sense.

[@fluffywaffles]

What about the excavation of Grave four?

[@emilialarsson496]

i think the nobolity inside of the wall was germans an danes and it would explain why they did not let them in

[@benparrish672]

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[@kimlatta4053]

🙏🙏🙏

[@mattskustomkreations]

Gotland got GOT.

[@williambenner701]

The music ruins this. Too hard to understand the narrative. Do better!

[@kimberlypatton205]

So turn on the captions… or adjust your devices sound settings. I am old and have hearing issues, and the music doesn’t give me any problems.

[@mito88]

Die Toten Hosen

[@williambenner701]

@@kimberlypatton205 well excuse me all to hell!😎

[@speakupriseup4549]

Yet ANOTHER replaying of the same old documentary that has been shown dozens of times on multiple channels pretending this is something new.

[@rodjbosch]

Who cares.....don't watch it then

[@speakupriseup4549]

@@rodjbosch I didn't

[@supernova7848]

Some ppl may not seen it previously

[@ashalon8729]

Then stop clicking on the same thing if you don't want to watch it. No reason to complain. Find something else to watch!

[@Canuck037]

I havnt seen it

[@jiveassturkey8849]

Even if I wind up being buried in a mass grave in some future battle, I still wouldn’t want my remains tampered with. Just saying. Let the dead rest in peace. Or if they are already in Heaven, maybe they don’t care about their earthly bodies.