A medieval warrior whose face was split open in one of Europe's most savage battles has been brought back to life in a stunning recreation, 660 years after his gruesome death. Experts reconstructed the fighter's visage after his skull was recovered from a mass grave outside Visby on the Swedish island of Gotland.It was there in 1361 that a Danish force of some 2,500 men, many of them experienced mercenaries, perpetrated a massacre.
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