The Danish royal ship sank with a cargo full of spices

Eagle dog – the flagship of the Danish King Hans – sank in 1495 after a fire outside Ronneby in Blekinge. For the Danish king it was a hard loss, because he had great treasures on board, which the king intended to use to persuade the Swedish regent to re-establish the Kalmar Union.

New investigations into the cargo show that one of the things the king wanted to impress her with was the large quantities of spices. Two historians from Lund University took samples from 3,097 botanical stalks from 40 different plants that were found in the shipwreck. Eagle dog. Up to 86 percent, it turns out, came from spices that were in great demand at the time.

Attack magic failed

Among the spices on board Eagle dog It had saffron and black pepper among others. Bharat was so expensive that only the absolute elite could afford it.

And the historians point out in their book: “The remains of saffron, almonds and hazelnuts prove that the king often ate these expensive foods while he was at sea and perhaps also on land.” Stady.

If the spices were lost and Eagle dog Something we don’t know for sure. But King Hans’s attack in Sweden in 1495 failed. A few years later, however, the Danish king returned and re-established the Kalmar Union by force of arms.