ahoy me piratey hearty ssg friends there be treasure in them there hills.......there isn't actually any hills here, just humour me,
so it be pirate sunday and I wanted to join in , so I went and found a real badass pirate a real pirate I could lose me heart too and all that, I looked for a rebel, a strong man with an independent nature, a man with a big sword......
and I found one :)
meet hang on his names a bit of a vocal exercise.....Pier Gerlofs Donia and he had a big sword :)
We re talking sixteenth century big here and all, they didn't mess about in them days you know. So his more popular name was Grutte Pier, literally meaning great Pier, because apparently he was around 7 feet tall, strong, quite fiercesome, he took on the holy roman empire, on more than one occasion, this was a man with huge balls! Life generally was pretty tough in those days but at this time there was a war between the Frisians and the Dutch, mostly he had stayed out of it but, life throws a challenge every now and again doesn't it, saxon soldiers burnt his home, his village was attacked, and his wife raped, and murdered
He had been a wealthy farmer but now life had changed him and he became a pirate and commanded a militia, known as the Schwarte Hoop~dutch for black gang and he fought for freedom of the Frisians and they hold him a hero but the Dutch are not so enthusiastic, he was a successful pirate he was a good strategist at sea and appears to have been cool headed and logical, apparently nearly a hundred ships fell victim to him.
Etching of Grutte Pier, from 'Chronycke ofte Historische Geschiedenis van Frieslant' published in 1622. ( Public Domain )
His great sword was apparently 2.13 metres and weighing 6.6 kilograms, the sword in the Fries Museum is the real thing and quite impressive.
Picture of Grutte Pier’s Sword. (1953) Fries museum in Leeuwarden. (public domain)
Now that is a beauty :) rumours tell he actually got it from a Saxon soldier. the war went on for many years and he grew old and tired of the fighting and retired dying the following year in 1516. There is a statue to him in his home town which I think is cool.
I hope you enjoyed meeting this man, if only briefly, and his sword is something to behold, I couldn't even begin to move it never mind pick it up and behead someone, according to history he could decapitate several of his enemies with a single swipe from his sword. Admittedly beheading people is a tad frowned upon these days, still quite impressive though.
Drunk Bob is impressed he just doesn't like to show it and he has more important stuff om his mind....
have an excellent pirate sunday my lovely ssg friends
refs:
(1) https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/pier-gerlofs-donia-giant-frisian-rebel-warrior-and-pirate-005312
(2) https://listverse.com/2014/05/28/10-obscure-yet-successful-pirates-from-history/
(3)https://www.friesmuseum.nl/en/collection/icons/grutte-piers-sword/
(4) a few other websites
I always like to find the more obscure pirates not mentioned in pop culture. Thanks for the link too for my own research @beckieg
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This is funny. I did not know this (being Dutch I should know) but this person appeared in a 70's tv serie called Floris (played by a young Rutger Hauer) as Lange Pier (Long Pier see pic.) and he had a servant wearing his sword.
hiya one of the reasons i found this interesting was because of the dutch connnection, i have lived in Holland a couple of times and loved it, when i was around 3 possibly nearly 4 yrs old i lived more out in the country small as it is :) and then later i moved back there in my late teens and lived and worked in amsterdam, i loved evry minute and still to this day miss the friends i had there its over 30 yrs ago now but the memories are still strong, i was very fond of the place and still would love to go visit Efteling, i was always at work when i was there so never got to go visit and it looked brilliant, i havent seen this tv series i shall go have a search for it , though i pity the poor servant :) thank you for visiting my little steem home i appreciate it and thank you for chatting i hope you have an excellent pirate sunday much respect to you
Now This is What #PirateSunday is All About @beckieg, AWESOME !!!
hiya lovely to hear from you and i love that you like it i really tried to think of how i could do a pirate post, i love pirate sunday glad i finally found a way to join in, thank you for visiting me and chatting its always good to hear from hope you have an excellent day much respect to you
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