Øystein H. Brekke ᚯᛦᛌᛐᛅᛁᚿ ᚼ ᛒIt is 498 years ago more or less these days, since the epic fight between two Hansa ships under Captain Carsten Thode and the pirate Martin Pechlin on the southern tip of Norway, close to present day Mandal. The really great thing about it, is that one of the people on Thode's ship wrote a detailed account of what happened, which is a great read.
Martin Pechlin worked for the Nordic ex-king Christian II. He was German himself, came from Fehmarn, just outside Lübeck. 1/*
#history
All GNU social JP content and data are available under the