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| '''Estonian pirates''' appear at least twice in history and legend. | |||
| ] relates in his '']'' that the Swedish king ] (]), the son of ], was a great warrior who had to spend time patrolling the shores of his kingdom fighting Estonian pirates. | |||
| According to ] sagas in the year ] the ] Queen Astrid with her son ] escaped from her homeland to her brother Sigurd, who lived in an honoured position in ] at the court of ]. On their way, ''Estonian vikings'' robbed the ship, ''killing some, taking others into slavery''. Six years later when Sigurd Eirikson traveled to Estonia to collect taxes on behalf of Valdemar, he spotted ] on a market and bought him out from slavery. | |||
| A battle between Estonian and ] vikings in ] is described in ] to have occured in ]. | |||
| Since the 12th century, chroniclers' descriptions of Estonian, ] and Couronian raids to the coasts of Sweden and Denmark have become more frequent. In the XIV book of ], ] describes a battle on ] that took place in ], where the Danish king Valdemar fought with Couronian and Estonian pirates. | |||
| In ], the Swedish town of ] was attacked by Baltic-Finnic raiders from ], ] or ]. Among the casualties of this raid was the Swedish archbishop ]. It remained occupied for some time. This contributed to the diminishing of its commercial importance in the 13th century, in favor of ], ], ] and ].<ref></ref> | |||
| It is indited in the ] that the Estonians had two kinds of ships – ''piratica'' and ''liburna''. The aforementioned was a battleship, the latter mainly a merchant ship. ''Piratica'' could carry approximately 30 men. It had a high prow shaped like a dragon or a snakehead and a quadrangular sail. | |||
| ==Notes== | |||
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