Svenska Pirat Akademien

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When history is described, it is described from the viewpoint of the ruling system. This makes the history rather narrow and it only takes side with the winners. One of the groups that have been treated only as monsters or romantic heroes are the pirates. Very seldom have they been treated for what they actually did and with an explanation why they acted the way they did. We do not say that we donīt have subjective point of view, but we have another view than most of those who have written the history..

This site will in english be rather lame for quite some time, the swedish material will be of first priority. But some material will be found here. Many of the things come from the, now inactive re-enactment group, Buccaneers of the Louis de Fere homepage.

We are interested not only in the big schemes, but also in the small things, such as daily life of the pirate. Therefore we have for instance also included a small cookbook that gives you a glance of what a pirate might have eaten in different parts of history.

"Damn my blood...

You are a sneaking puppy, and so are all those who will submit to be governed by laws which rich men have made for their own security, for the cowardly whelps have not the courage otherwise to defend what they get by their knavery...

They vilify us, the scoundrels, when there is only this difference, they rob the poor under the cover of law, forsooth, and we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage.

Had you not better make one of us than sneak after the arses of these villains for employment?

I am a free prince and I have as much authority to make war on the whole world as he who have a hundred sail at sea...

But there is no reasoning with such snivelling puppies, who allow superiors to kick them about deck at pleasure an pin their faith upon a pimp of a parson, a squab who neither practices nor belives what he puts upon the chuckle-headed fools he preaches to."

- Samuel Bellamy

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