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There's a remarkable painting depicting that (Hanseatic-era Visby). I'd always been fascinated by the hats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdemar_Atterdag_holding_Visb... ("Valdemar Atterdag holding Visby to ransom, 1361")

In the battle the local farmers resisted the Danes as they retreated to the walls of the town where the townsfolk didn’t let them in. They were slaughtered and then the townsfolk surrendered. The mass graves of the farmers have been a major archeological excavation.

looks like the urbanites always had a lack of compassion for the ruralites.

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