Battle of Visby 1361

During the weekend I was at the new exhibition at the Historical Museum here in Stockholm "Medieval Massacre – the Battle of Gotland 1361"

They tell the story about the horrifying medieval battle between the allmoge of Gotland and the well trained soldiers of the Danish army.

In May 1361, King Magnus IV of Sweden writes a letter of warning to the burghers of Visby:

“… some of our enemies are conspiring ... 

to attack your area by force of arms and a strong army …”

On 27 July that same year, the mercenary troops of Danish King Valdemar IV Atterdag kill 1,800 Gotland farmers. Men, old folk, youths, cripples – they all die in battle outside the city walls of Visby. Their corpses are thrown into mass graves.

Extensive archaeological investigations of the graves in 1928-1930 and modern science have provided new knowledge of what happened.

I have seen parts of this exhibition at Gotland in 2011, they have done some more research, but I must say that the Historical Museum of Visby had a better exhibition. Most of all I lacked new books or a fancy exhibition folder about the event, not event a reprint of the very fine book "Visby 1361: Invasionen" by Gun Westhom. Still, if you are in Stockholm by any chance it is well woths a visit.

...the backside about this kind of museum visits are that it starts some bad thoughts about new small projects... and in combination with the up comming Lion Rampant rules and the fine minis from Claymore Casting and Perry HYW range I might end up with one more project...

Here are a link to the exebition material.about the battle of Visby 1361 Its primary for touch screens so It isn´t that easy to navigate on a PC, but I think you manage...