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Serious historians might say "No no, don't call him a pirate, he worked for ex-king Christian II, which means he was a privateer, not a pirate!" Sure, but to his victims, it really didn't matter. They called him "rover" "deef" - "robber" and "thief". Or indeed, "pirate".
Pechlin preyed on shipping and vulnerable coastal communities, monasteries and such, between Denmark and Norway, in the summer of 1526. 2/*