Skibby Chronicle

[5][6][7] The work is a sometimes very personal description of Danish history during the last decades of Roman Catholicism, marked by the author's sympathy for and (mainly) antipathy against the political actors.

Especially his portrait of Christian II is a very subjective one, affected by his negative attitude to the king's anti-aristocratic policy and his use of violence.

Formally the chronicle is built up very much like the annals, which means that great and small events are often mentioned together – deaths among the local clergy alternating with battles and wars – but it often contains valuable material.

His hot temper often breaks through, invectives and personal injuries reveal a man who was deeply engaged in the struggle.

In spite of this subjectivity, the chronicle makes an interesting picture of pre-Reformation Denmark viewed through the eyes of a disillusioned Reform Roman Catholic.