1361 Massacre: The Buried Secrets Of The Gotland Mass Grave | Medieval Dead 

Valdemar II died in 1241, so he can hardly have burned Visby in 1361. What the producers of Timeline should know is that it was Valdemar IV who burned Visby in 1361.

I'm from Sweden but never heard of this. Now I have even more reason to visit Gotland!!

Interesting. I knew about the betrayal of Visby, the battle outside the wall and how the leaders refused to help the people defending the city wall. But I didn't know some of these things.

I can barely imagine the shear terror the defenders experienced defe defending their land and homes. Poor people that suffer in armed conflict anytime in human history. This doc was so good to watch.

Knowing history is power for the future

The Visby graves gave us more knowledge on medieval arms and armor than any other site. Normally the dead were stripped of arms and armor, at Visby the dead were buried in their armor. Maybe the conquerors we're moving too fast to take time to strip the dead.

"A medieval battle was a fight for your life, literally." All battles are literally a fight for your life!

Very interesting, thanks for the upload!

Timeline always produces quality doc's. It would be very nice if they'd also show the continuation of this episode. I understand there is such a program where they finally did find the mass graves. Thank you.

Cool to see this cus im from Gotland.

I wish they would have shown more of the museum. But great doc.

I actually lived in Gotland and att one point in ’Mästerby’.. very interesting video 🙂

A local Texas friend of mine was getting grave marking from stones from local abandoned family graveyards they are only about 100 years old. They were covered with brambles and trees.

Great video, however. I would have expected History Hit not to use a thumbnail of the Battle of Rocroi in 1643 for a video concerning the battle of Visby in 1361.

Good work by experts. It would be great if someone could find the mass Graves of the battle of hastings or even any Graves.

I don't understand why they can't put some kind of wooden structure with a small roof over the top of the cross to keep some of the rain and elements away from it to preserve it a lot longer cuz it said it's historical object

This is only one of 8 episodes of the series Medieval Dead. There was another episode that focused on the mass grave that was found outside of the city. I watched is on Amazon Prime earlier this year so it should still be there.

This is saddening - thousands of Danes against basically helpless villagers. My thought was could they have met the Danes on the shore - but how could they, out numbered, out weaponed. It's a sad history.

History was brutal. Absolutely brutal.

He's not wrong, Gotland has been a depopulated backwater ever since. Far from the rich lands that spawned the goth migration centuries earlier.

Great documentary!

Interesting introducing of Gotland Mass Grave video

It must be really something for the locals searching there to come across a grave and realize it could be one of your relatives you have discovered

History. Adore learning.

Very well told

Fantastic 👍🏻

I imagine the Gotlanders walking that field felt like I did walking the battlefields of Virginia from the Recent Unpleasantness.

I live in Stockholm but my ancestors all originated from Gotland since the 1600th

Merry Christmas 🌎 🌍 🌏 another mind opener your history 🤓 from Columbus ohio

Omg all that cool mid evil battle metal stuff in that box. From the field.. that is way cool!!

Love you all!

wow good work

interesting stuff

Another misleading title. Majority of content not about the Gotland mass grave. No "buried mysteries," revealed.

A nightmare beyond words.

4:51 these captions are hilarious!

Wild

Timeline good show

Digging Up Worthless Non-Medieval Nails in Gotland | Medieval Dead | Timeline Tim Sutherland and the team make a return trip to Sweden, where they walk around in fields with metal detectors and find nail after worthless non-medieval nail. After more than forty minutes of this, hear Tim Sutherland try to sell the idea that not finding stuff is just about as important as finding stuff. It's not, though. It's the opposite of that.

One wonders what current world would look like, had not humans been as territorial & aggressive throughout documented history. Would the tipping point of population been reached centuries or millennium prior, without mass battle deaths/disease/breakdown of resources? Or, without any natural or natural warring aggression, would we have found a balance long ago?

The fact the town doesnt have any written history on it says a lot.

these presentations are just brilliant. i'm a cat-loving history hound... for me, this is like swigging unblended scotch.

The captions.. oh my.

I wonder if the Archeologist thought about using drones or Google Earth. Didn't a young man discover another pyramid in the jungle?

Pulling up that Farmers nail crop! how rude! lol

Sad that it's holding their secrets but I don't believe that the cross is just there. They had a good reason for placing it there.

MY GRANDFATHER Leonard Emmett Smith is Valdemar II "The Victorious", King of Denmark's second cousin 23 times removed. Valdemar II "The Victorious", King of Denmark → Sophia of Minsk his mother → Queen Consort of Sweden Ryksa Bolesławówna of Novogrod her mother → Casimir II the Just, High Duke of Poland her brother → Konrad I of Masovia his son → Siemowit I his son → Boleslav II. his son → Książę Trojden I ks. Piast-Mazowiecki, książę his son → Eufemia Mazowiecka his daughter → Przemysław I Noszak, Duke of Cieszyn her son → Margaret Felbrigge his daughter → Helena Tyndale her daughter → Sir Thomas Tyndale. Kt. her son → Sir William Tyndale, Kt. his son → John Tyndale his son → Margaret Wright his daughter → Thomas Taylor her son → Thomas Taylor his son → John Taylor his son → Col. James Taylor, of King & Queen his son → Mary Pendleton his daughter → Mary Gaines her daughter → Rev. Henry Pendleton Gaines her son → Catherine Waggoner his daughter → James Waggener her son → Martin Franklin Waggoner his son → Jones David Waggoner his son → Viola Winifred Smith his daughter → Leonard Emmett Smith her son

The closed captioning of "Valdemar" was turned into "Voldemort"... Hehehe. But this was very interesting. I haven't seen any other documentaries about Gotland. I'm going to have to look now.

Why a 19th century illustration of a 17th century battle-scene in the announcement of an incident of the 14th century ? ? ? So sad.

Or moved hundreds of meters due to plowing.

At 29:52 if you see the red spec of fungus marking the spot on the head where someone got hit possibly… I was wondering if there’s any skull in correlation with it? (if you take a photo of the cross and turn down the brightness, up the contrast, down the shadow, and down the vibrancy and temperature just a little you might see what I see)

The captions seem to malfunction🤣👏👏 where was that?

Thanks!

A bigger mystery is how I didn't know of this channel.

...and what have we learned about battles? Nothing it seems as it continues to this day. We have learned nothing about life. Ask the Ukranie. Thank you, this was a great presentation.

look for the companion cross

I prefer today's Danes to those in 1361.

#no dragons

The Mastaby cross will have the same words as the Visby cross "- In the year of our Lord 1361, Tuesday after St James’ Day, Gutnish fell into the hands of the Danish before the gates of Visby. They are buried here. Pray for them!" But change Visby to Mastaby.

Such a horrible, painful way to die. They were brave

I love the reddish stand-in, fore corpses. He makes me smile.💝🙏🕯

G.o.t no gragons though

If Ash and The Thirteen Warrior went back in Time to Pre-Rennaisance France, would they battle the Medieval Dead? 🎉

Plus, wrongly dead spirits, like serfs that were betrayed and locked out, might still haunt areas that trees would/can cover(?).

What’s under the stone cross ?

I wonder if the Dead Marshes LOTR was inspired by the Gotland Mass Grave

Tl/Dr: nothing much found. Speculation with backing music and people in historical costume supplied instead.

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So there were no mass graves ever found? You'd think they could explore around the grounds of the local churches if those were the most likely areas. It seems they never did that. Also I wonder why they didn't do the radar and other imaging first around the cross figurine before all, but I'm only amateur.

Yet another episode with MUSIC TOO LOUD.

It is so bad that it is being so much houses builded on the Island though. It is a crime that it is being build so many houses on Gotland. Very much evidence must been DESTROYED and vanished because of that. I do not think they check the areas where they want to build the houses before they build them. Gotland is the place in the world with most treasures. The most unique viking place and it is so much treasures and old houses in the ground. But then the tourists and other modern buildings is created there. It is for sure so much things that being destroyed because of them. IT should be forbidden to build before check the ground first. It is a historical Island. With such a unique history for the world of the human history. I do not like double moral. It should be surtain rules and structures of how to treat the nature on the Island. Gotland should be marked as a culture place. The nature is unique too with the flora and insects. So respect Gotland. It should be treated right. The treasure Island. The island hides so much still so to check with a metal detector should be a fact before exploiting the nature more. It is terrible to ignore Gotland. Be careful with the Island. See but not touch before checking the ground as a routine. Welcome to Gotland, the treasure vaggon. So much more treasues to find there. The nature is very rich on different flowers and insects too. A very good video for the world to see. I wish it was longer. Gotland is majestic. Thank you very much.

The Visby Wall could keep a peasants army out, but not a King with a rented Professional, German army and "modern weapons" for a siege. I suppose that King Waldemar gave Visby a "Mafia Offer" to keep out of the war, and after all no love excisted between the farmers and the town, as they had fougth a Civil War about 20 years before, I think to remember?

Darn! No dragons?

Those trees are very green?? Are they growing on some iron rich medium like blood…

Folks might have erected the cross at a crossroads for maximum visibility.

Damn Danes..

Why is the back ground music so loud, dont you want people to hear whay your saying

UMMM. not true the Gotlanders did not stand as one, the damn merchants closed and locked the gates to the defenders, that's why the battle happened where it did. There are a-lot of people very interested in History, it's much harder now to pull one on them.

i ment the 4th

The background music is terrible.

Got damn

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It's the sign of the old Teutonic Druid cross of the old Suncult . They offerd their horses alife by hanging them from a tree ,to their god .

misleading title..no massgraves.

he was valdermar the 3

Or you might just push the enemy into a narrow place between two woods and get stuck in the mud and peppered with arrows....

Chickens on grill still a bit rare

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I didn't that had been Vikings Vs Goths cool.

Why the F .. do every one of these archeological expeditions have like 1 week before .. the weather sets in lol ..

Dead not debt

where is gotland

the defenders may not have been able to bury their dead. They lost and the invaders dominated the field of battle.

Got Land? ..want some? America. 🎉

those are farm fields plowed for years,wouldnt there be a great knowledge of artifacts already? they act as if they are the first peoples to look for stuff?

Its MÄSTERBY not "Masterby"... Mäster (Champion/skillful/specialist) - by (village). Masterby is half English and half Swedish... sloppy to say the least. So either call it Mästerby or Mastervillage.

I know Danny Gott .

damn you danes!!

We think of the Danes as a progressive, peace-loving people, but I think it's best that we don't test their patience.

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