Posted on 04/23/2024 10:47:25 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Around the spring of 1290, bad-boy Norwegian nobleman Alv Erlingsson was broken on the wheel by a Danish sheriff.
Sometimes remembered as the “last Viking”, Erlinggson (English Wikipedia entry | Norwegian) wasn’t only one of the great lords of the Norse kingdom: he was a prolific pirate.
The 1280s saw Norway warring with the rising German merchant cities, the latter soon allied with Denmark.
Alv Erlingsson made his sea-dog bones in this conflict, terrorizing Hanseatic League fleets and eventually raiding the Danish coast as well. His “Viking” reputation proceeds not only from this mastery of the waves but from his willingness to direct it even against his own king and country.
Although he was a senior enough official to be dispatched as an envoy to the English king in 1286,* a falling-out with King Eric‘s brother Haakon led Erlingsson to actually attack Oslo the following year.** His marauders put it to the torch and murdered the garrison commander — after which Erlingsson was a robber baron in the fullest sense of both words.....
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Nasty way to go.
Ever read the details about what Comanche did to their enemies?
Hinga Dinga Durgen!
A few accounts, yes. Lots of barbarity throughout history. The nice guys got killed off pretty quickly.
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No. ‘Nice guys’ were tortured the most. If they thought you were crazy, they would leave you alone. Hence, bad medicine.
There is a true story about a Texas Ranger whom they wounded and scalped. He lived and started drinking his own blood. Laughing the whole time. Freaked them out and scared them.
But anyways, they did some horrible things.
I mean bad awful, disgusting things. You ain’t read a dang thing.
-PJ
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