Skull still wearing the chain-mail he was wearing when he died in the battle of Visby 1361

Apr 10, 2018 10:29 PM

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It didn’t work.

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Did thou speakth the words?

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Wisby was a crazy story, lots of brutal deaths and a well preserved mass grave.

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Neat.

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Henry killed him. Mistook for a Cuman.

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Wheres the rest of him?

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Getting ready for the skeleton war even before death, that's metal!

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Witnessed.

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Hollow soldiers helm +0

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Must be pretty decent armor if they still have it on 700 years later lmao

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A little WD-40 and he'll be good as new.

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A little? That looks like a 2-3 can job, and a Jerry-can of Elbow grease.

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Shite chain-mail it looks like.

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I too shall join him..... your cropping has given me cancer.

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Excellent Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGY2OqMXF9w

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He died cause he didn't send it to at least 10 friends

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This deserves top, and I mean TOP comment.

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underrated comment of the day

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Clap clap clap yes clap clap well done

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I swiped back to this post just to like this underrated comment +1

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***** I loled you fuck. GodDAMN

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“He chose, poorly”

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Bone seems rather impervious to the elements over time.

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I take it, the rusted part of chainmail is the place where his decomposing face flowed down?

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Several of my Danish ancestors fought in this battle. It messes with my head a bit to think that one of them could’ve killed this guy.

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There is one more reason to mess with your head. Imagine one of your ancestors were killed in that battle.

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I have written record of many of my ancestors fighting in plenty of the battles during reconquista,things like this are so interesting to me

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I suppose that downvote is from an angry Swede.

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More likely a Geat

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I want this on my coffee table

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I wonder if you were my upteenth great grandfather ??

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“When I die, I want to be dug up and put on post cards, key chains and mugs”. That guy probably

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To be fair, these guys were basically left out to rot until someone came along and covered em up in a mass grave to get rid of the smell.

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Quite peaceful

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You know... this guy never guessed he'd be on Imgur seven centuries later. Makes you wonder if a millennium from now someone's gonna be 1/2

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using your femur as a dildo or something...

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I think I'll die of hypothermia in a mountain somewhere so I end up in a museum.

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Looking at what the Victorian's did, I'm wouldn't be shocked.

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one could only hope

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Lovely.

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“You don’t suppose that’s just a regular frog?” *ptttthhhh* “AHHHHHHHHH WE GOT TO GET OUT OF HERE!”

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Deus vult

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It was a battle where Christians fought Christians...

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(shrugs shoulders) si deus vult illud

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