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again accused by one single person of having
checked the advance of the Swedish army at
Bähüs, Erik invited him to his palace at Svartsjö,
gave him an honourable place at his royal table,
and let him depart in apparent good faith
for Stockholm, where, on his arrival, the heralds
were ordered to proclaim in the streets: "Niels
Sture is a traitor to his country!"
There Goran Persson and the German retainers
seized him, and sat him by force on
the executioner’s most miserable hack; struck
him in the face so that the blood streamed
down, placed a tarred straw crown on his head,
and fastened a paper with derisive words,
on the saddle before him. They then let
a row of hired beggar-boys and old fish-wives
go in couples before, and to the tail of the horse
they bound two fir-trees, the roots of which
dragged on the ground and swept the street
after the traitor. Niels Sture exclaimed that he
had not deserved this treatment from his King
and he begged the groom, who went by his
side, and had served him in the field of battle,
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