Nov 22, 2020
In the night of November 22, 1286 the Danish King Erik Klipping was murdered in a barn in Finderup, near Viborg. He was stabbed 56 times by unknown assailants who effectively rid the kingdom of a troublesome ruler who had made enemies of a good number of nobles and peers of the realm.
The murder has fascinated Danish artists, writers and composers ever since. Here is Louis Moe’s version of the dramatic event - a lithograph published in 1898 in Danmarks Historie i Billeder, vol. XXVI.