On January 19, 1520, the Swedish regent Sten Sture the Younger was wounded in a battle with the Danes on the Åsunden ice outside Bogesund.

[1] On Good Friday of the same year, the Danish forces were stationed in Uppsala awaiting orders to attack Stockholm.

[2] The Danish army was mostly made up of highly trained and well armed mercenaries from France, Scotland and Germany, which gave the Danes an advantage from the start.

But instead of holding their positions, the Swedes began looting and ravaging the city, which gave the Danes time to regroup and gather for a counterattack and defeat the Swedish peasant soldiers.

[4] The memory of the battle is partially overshadowed by the drama surrounding Stockholm bloodbath that took place later in autumn that year.

[2] In 2001, workmen making improvements to a road uncovered a mass grave containing some of the thousands who fell at the Battle of Uppsala.

[5] The grave contained some whole skeletons, while others were reduced to random limbs and articulated sections, as well as co-mingled remains of multiple individuals tossed together.