I'm ordering it from Amazon.de for J. His birthday is in June, but you can't start early enough, can you?
There are of course German pirates, but they are of rather local fame. The one I sort of grew up with is Störtebecker. His fame is mostly in the north, Hamburg and around (well, d'oh, only open water we have here, right?). Legend says he was captured and beheaded. They granted him that he could free some of his men by walking past the line *after* the beheading and he walked past 11 of them before the executioner threw the block in front of him and he tripped over. They still beheaded all of his crew, though. Cheats!
There are yearly Störtebecker festivals and plays in the north.
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Date: 2007-12-28 07:37 am (UTC)There are of course German pirates, but they are of rather local fame. The one I sort of grew up with is Störtebecker. His fame is mostly in the north, Hamburg and around (well, d'oh, only open water we have here, right?). Legend says he was captured and beheaded. They granted him that he could free some of his men by walking past the line *after* the beheading and he walked past 11 of them before the executioner threw the block in front of him and he tripped over. They still beheaded all of his crew, though. Cheats!
There are yearly Störtebecker festivals and plays in the north.