EXECUTIONER
(historical character)
On the 25th of June the year of Grace 1477 Martin Jensson, the executioner from Turku, confessed he stole a cow from a teen by the name Ingwer. For this crime he is sentenced to death by hanging. May peace be with him.
Martin stands deathly pale in his red suit in front of the Assistant Circuit Judge. His fate has been sealed. Once before he had avoided the gallows by becoming an executioner himself. Martin is well aware that you get hanged for stealing a cow. For Magnus Eriksson’s town law ordered a man to be hanged and a woman to be buried alive for stealing cattle and goods worth over half a mark. He has on many occasions been there to lay the halter around a thief’s throat. He has also on numerous instances cut off hands or sliced up ear lobes from the sentenced as signs of shame for the petty thefts they committed. He has tied on many bundles of rods for the purposes of gauntlet running and the whipping of the worthless. Now and than has his axe swung and made the head of a rapist fall off the log. Finally, he had taken poor women convicted of witchcraft or arson to be burned at the stake, which he then has lit up. He had certainly led a dog’s life. Everyone had avoided him and been scared of him and made detours when they came across him. Indeed he did smell of death. Now Martin Jensson saw glimpses of his life pass by him like a funeral procession during the time of the last great plague. Piae Memoriae.
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