Spillet om magten
Spillet om magten
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Documentary series about the fiercest of power battles of the Middle Ages in Denmark.
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15 Episodes
- The assassination
E1The assassinationSeries of power and murder, war and peace. We are with Piet van Deurs back in time to the scene of a series of fate games, and where a brave Danish king tonight emerges from the darkness of history in the company of an emperor, an old monk and - an elephant. We go down to Aachen, Dorestad and Hedeby to define the background for the drama. - Faith can move mountainsE2
Faith can move mountainsWhat is myth - and what is reality? Piet Van Deurs this time takes us to Jelling and Tamdrup and tells about the glowing glove that made the king jump in the tub and renounce Thor and Odin and move the body of his old father from one of the big hills in Jelling. - England return trip
E4England return tripSweyn Forkbeard and his son Knud, called the Great, are the protagonists of the fourth of Piet van Deur's fate tales. Both father and son periodically ruled on both sides of the North Sea before the Danes had to give up the idea of ruling over the British Isles. Piet van Deurs this time takes us to the battlefield of the English. - Limp, but no coward
E5Limp, but no cowardPiet van Deurs talks about the chess game that killed - and about King Knud the Great and the clever, but lame Svend, who wrote Denmark's story on good and evil. We meet, with Piet van Deurs, the last Viking king down in the crypt under Vor Frue in Århus, but first to a game of chess that sent one player to death. - The melody of the murder
E6The melody of the murderIt sounds crazy - and is quite crazy that music can lead to murder, committed by a man who is otherwise termed Ejegod. It must be zoned! This time we were taken with Piet van Deurs for a strange concert - hear about the mysterious Elephant and with the King down to Cyprus, down to the fever, where myth and reality melt together. - Svend, Knud and Valdemar
E8Svend, Knud and ValdemarAbout a great drama in history's eerie theater with Svend, Knud and Valdemar, as main actors, where in "last act" with Piet van Deur ends at Grathe Hede outside Viborg. Here the last act of the battle for power was played out - and here also the last remnants of King Svend, who ended up losing the battle, losing Denmark - and life. - The endgame
E10The endgameAbout the prelude to a mutiny - about King Valdemar the Great's strange death in the bed of the sweets and the obituary he brought with him in the coffin, and all that preceded. With Piet van Deurs we reach the fleet's rent in Grønsund - for weekend sailing in Ringsted and Absalon as Archbishop over in Lund - and that gave trouble. - As the Dannebrog fell from the sky
E11As the Dannebrog fell from the skyMyth or reality? Do you really have to ask about what happened in Estonia. Piet van Deurs takes us to the "King's Garden" in Tallin and a small church where Dannebrog still floats on the altar .... and to Lyø, where a hunting company ended with the King being abducted .... and Bornhöved, where "The crown fell off the Danish head". - A row of murders
E12A row of murdersHe did not succeed in becoming the saint - Erik Plovpennig, even though the brother lowered him in Slien; but in Schleswig Cathedral, the chains that were used to thin the body are preserved. The brother ended up in Pøl Mose - a third brother must be dead in Lyksborg by altar wine - and then there is the murder in Finderup and Piet van Deurs also reaches out on the outlaw Marsk Stigs Hjelm. - The massacre
E13The massacreMyth and harsh reality: This is a picture of the face of war and death - from Visby on Gotland, from which Piet van Deurs reports on Valdemar Atterdag's strong rider army, who simply mowers the peasants, while the rafters look up from the city walls. But before that, Niels Ebbesen's murder of "The Countless Count" in Randers and the mysterious story of Brother Otto. - Yes, she was wearing her pants!
E14Yes, she was wearing her pants!It all begins at Gurre Castle, where the King floats between life and death, and to which daughter Margrete comes down from Norway to have her son sit on the throne ..... will it succeed? And how is it to sit back at a harsh castle in Norway - without enough money for food and salaries for the servants? And how does it feel to lose his only son and be accused of trying to kill him. And where everything finally succeeds - with the Kalmar Union. - Three crowns
E15Three crownsMargrete the First - a last journey in "The game of power" with Piet van Deurs brings us once again to Kalmar, where she collected four countries in the famous Union to Vadstena with her idol Holy Birgitta - to her confidant in the bishop's nest Gjorslev at Stevns - and the treasure chest, which is now opened at the National Museum in Copenhagen in the 600th year of the Kalmar Union.
