Joerg IsebrandChapter 1
I - How Wulf Isebrand and the Peasants of the Free Marshes Fought and Conquered the Great Army of the Danish The men were sweating, in spite of the cold weather and the sleet rain of the mid-February night. It was February 11, A.D. 1500, and the three hundred peasants were busy building a barricade across the only road for miles around, at a place called Hemmingstedt. They were too busy to be afraid, too busy to realise the folly of three hundred men trying to block the approach of an army...