Kystkulturhistoriske fortellinger på Backes bu Torsdag 10 juli

 KL: 12.00 – 13.00 

Fyrglede på Backes bu,   Henriette sjæveland

KL: 13.00  -14.00

Kongen, kaperen og kampen om Norden

Kong Kristian 2.s kamp om Norden hører til de mest dramatiske kapitlene i skandinavisk middelalderhistorie. Våren 1523 ble den omstridte dansk-norske kongen jaget i landflyktighet og søkte tilflukt i Nederland. Derfra innledet han en dristig, kostbar og langvarig kamp for å vinne tilbake sine nordiske riker.

En av hans viktigste støttespillere var den danske skipsføreren ogkaperen Klaus Kniphoff. Fram til han ble henrettet for sjørøveri høsten 1525, spilte Kniphoff en nøkkelrolle i eksilkongens forsøk på å skremme, straffe og svekke sine motstandere og dermed forsvare sin kongeverdighet. I dette foredraget skal vi dykke ned i hvordan Kniphoffs kapertokt hang sammen med den storpolitiske striden om kongemakten i Norden.

Kl: 14.30 – 15.30

Clais Kniphof and His Dutch Connections in 1525. Clais Kniphof – admiral, corsair and pirate – between Netherlands and Norway, 1525

In 1523, Christian II, the last Union King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, left his kingdoms  and fled to the Netherlands. During his exile he did several attempts to regain his thrones. In 1525 one of his agents, Clais Kniphof, equiped a ship and received a license from the exiled king to take enemy vessels. This lecture discusses Kniphof’s preparations in the Netherlands and his subsequent actions both in ports like Goedereede and at sea on his way to Norway.

Kl: 16 – 17

Of Pirates, Ravens and the Devil. Conflict, ​​​​Competition and Criminalization in the North Atlantic (1450-1535)

  In 1526 near Farsund, a brutal confrontation took place between the Lübeck Bergenfahrer, a corporation of merchants trading with Bergen, and Martin Pechlin, a partisan of the exiled Danish king Christian II. In processions, chronicles and exhibitions of trophies, the Bergenfahrer who returned to Lübeck presented themselves as victorious fighters against pirates. 

In my lecture, I will examine why they did this. Drawing on the example of 1526, I will shed light on how maritime communities around 1500 thought about economic competition, fought their opponents and reinvented the Roman concept of piracy in order to criminalise their opponentsand justify their own acts of violence.