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Bödlar | Annika Sandén

I won't finish any more books tomorrow, so this is it! Pic from the island beyond ours, at a place actually called "The End of the World". #readingstats #stats #tricoursstats

I-read-and-eat Beautiful! ðŸ’™ 7y

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Bödlar | Annika Sandén

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A fascinating book on executioners, their place in society and the use of corporal punishment and executions in 17th century Sweden. It's a book that, despite its quite old fashioned language, is a very accessible and rather quick read. There's not much focus on the grisly part of executions, even though they're not altogether left out!

respekt1111 So was being an executioner a prestigious job in that era, or just a thankless one? 7y

tricours @respekt1111 it was the lowest one! Before it became a profession you inherited (when times in Europe in general became really tough due to a minor ice age) it was usually criminals who had been convicted to death that were given the choice of becoming executioner instead. When they were eventually replaced, the replacement sometimes executed the old executioner. Many continued carrying out crimes. 7y

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Bödlar | Annika Sandén

"Hanging was a male punishment [...] Women in the Nordic countries were not punished by hanging but by being buried alive or stoned." I think I'd rather hang...

okthislooksbad Oh my God. "Let's not hang the ladies, wouldn't want anyone to peek up their skirts! Let's do something /even worse/ to them instead!" Good grief. ? 7y

tricours @okthislooksbad up until 1350 they weren't even accountable for their own crimes, their fathers or husbands had to pay instead! (Back in the good old days when you paid your way out of your crimes!) When they started executing instead this changed ðŸ˜› 7y

okthislooksbad @tricours Medieval times were weird. So weird. So freaking weird. ðŸ˜± 7y

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Faibka That's horrible ðŸ˜£ 7y

ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled Thats terrifying 7y

blueberry.cobbler @tricours You wouldn't still have the book, would you? If so, could you post the next page? :> I'm very interested in that explanation :/ 7y

tricours @blueberry.cobbler will do when I get back home! 7y

blueberry.cobbler @tricours thank you! 7y

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Bödlar | Annika Sandén

Did you know that the "gypsies" were so called in Europe because they were perceived as Egyptians? In the Nordic countries they were mistaken for tatars and called "tattare". #history #funfact

Dolly I love those bits of information. ðŸ˜Thanks! 7y

tricours @Dolly same here ðŸ˜Š 7y

ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled Ohhhh! Cool trivia!! Makes sense now! 7y

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Bödlar | Annika Sandén

I've only read 63 pages, but omg what a page turner! Death, execution and torture - apparently Sweden was an exception in Europe in that the torture (or "extras") that was applied to especially heinous criminals was carried out AFTER the execution.

I-read-and-eat That's kind... I guess ðŸ˜‚ 7y

tricours @I-read-and-eat I know what I'd choose! 7y

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Bödlar | Annika Sandén

I just started this fascinating book on executioners in the 17th century in Sweden. I find legal history very interesting, and just like with Slavic legal history (which I've read a bit of), the Scandinavian goes from monetary compensation, to physical punishment/death, to imprisonment for serious crimes. The last public execution in Sweden was held in 1876, the last ever execution in 1910.

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