The Eye That Cost an Empire – How King Valdemar’s Lost Sight and a Peasant Flip on July 22, 1227, at Bornhöved Ended Danish Dominion Over Northern Germany and Left a Blueprint for Breaking Overlords
On the feast day of St. Mary Magdalene, July 22, 1227, near a modest rise of ground called the Königsbarg outside the village of Bornhöved...