Christian II

  • Bit like that scene in The Godfather, but with more decapitations

    Bit like that scene in The Godfather, but with more decapitations

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    What is it about Danes and celebrations? We’ve all seen ‘Festen’, and there was the Roskilde massacre ordered by Svend in 1157. But they all pale in comparison to King Christian II’s ambush in 1520 – an atrocity that today we remember as the Stockholm bloodbath