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192: 171: 139: 77: 53: 202: 22: 87: 280:"His character was marked by ambition, avarice and absolute lack of honor or conscience"; "he migrated to Stralsund in Swedish Pomerania and began the intrigues which have branded his name with infamy"; he "entered the service of his country's deadliest foe, for the express purpose of humiliating his sovereign and enriching himself"; &c. 283:
Can we get some sources and context for this stuff? I don't want to say that the traditional Danish narrative is unimportant, but it certainly isn't the whole picture. Even Benedict Arnold is a hero to the British. Wouldn't the Swedes look kindly on this guy? Wouldn't historians view him as an able
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Not so much traditional Danish narrative as traditional Encyclopedia Britannica 1911 narrative. In Denmark his traditional role as an arch-traitor was revised and nuanced way back in the 19th century with the popular publication of the prison memories of
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courtier simply performing as well as he could given the nature of his times and situation? —
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