Particularly tragic scenes from it include the killing of the Ribbing children as they pleaded for mercy and the drowning of all the monks in Nydala Abbey.
Particularly tragic scenes from it include the killing of the Ribbing children as they pleaded for mercy and the drowning of all the monks in Nydala Abbey. Hemming Gadh also died as a result of this event, which inspired a future ruler's trek to Dalarna to organize a rebellion against the king who initiated it. Occurring several months after the Battle of Bogesund, this event was presided over by Erik Trolle and also saw the corpse of Sten Sture dug up and burned. The beheading of the bishops of Strangnas and Skara marked its beginning, and as names were drawn from a list of proscriptions, 94 were killed at the order of Christian II. FTP, identify this sanguinely-named 1520 massacre that occurred in the capital of Sweden.
Particularly tragic scenes from it include the killing of the Ribbing children as they pleaded for mercy and the drowning of all the monks in Nydala Abbey.
{Stockholm Bloodbath}