02-08-2006, 07:18 AM
I will check with my friend Joachim who is an expert on this matters.
The Battle outside Visby stood in the summer of 1361 on the fields known as Korsbetningen - the cross pastures - between the Danish King Waldemar Atterdags few hundred professional soldiers and a peasantarmy of some 2000 men. Cought inbetween the city wall (still standing) and the Danes the peasants didn´t stand a chans and where brutally cut down. Indeed there is an exebition in the Museum of Visby, called Visby Fornsal, of victims from the massgraves of this battle. Some of them display severe injuries like multiple crossbow wounds or limbs choped of. There is a famous skull that still wear a maile hood. To clarify this peasant army eas recorded to be poorly armed and had according to contemporary sources outdated equipment, some even armed with tools and not proper weapons.
Here is some links showing photos related to this:
http://hem.passagen.se/rodorm/Rustningar.html
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-64205/cupps.html
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-64205/plata_se.html
The Battle outside Visby stood in the summer of 1361 on the fields known as Korsbetningen - the cross pastures - between the Danish King Waldemar Atterdags few hundred professional soldiers and a peasantarmy of some 2000 men. Cought inbetween the city wall (still standing) and the Danes the peasants didn´t stand a chans and where brutally cut down. Indeed there is an exebition in the Museum of Visby, called Visby Fornsal, of victims from the massgraves of this battle. Some of them display severe injuries like multiple crossbow wounds or limbs choped of. There is a famous skull that still wear a maile hood. To clarify this peasant army eas recorded to be poorly armed and had according to contemporary sources outdated equipment, some even armed with tools and not proper weapons.
Here is some links showing photos related to this:
http://hem.passagen.se/rodorm/Rustningar.html
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-64205/cupps.html
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-64205/plata_se.html
