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Tile art on the east wall of the Golden Hall.
(The horse looks a bit pervy. I know it's actually about the
Stockholm
Bloodbath where almost 100 people were executed shortly after the
coronation of Christian II as the King of Sweden in 1520, in an event
that sounds like it might have been used in The Game of Thrones. But it
still looks the horse is thinking (out loud), “Oh, yeah, baby,
whip me, whip me harder. I'm a bad horse. Ride me, show me who's
boss, make me dance and prance. Use that crop until my ass is on fire
with every step I take. Yeah! … and then it'll be MY turn!”
Everyone around them looks shocked, except the rider who has a forlorn
expression on his face that suggests, “Oh no, not again.”)
On the next column is
Eric XIV who reined from 1560-1569. He was known for being rather
cuckoo-bananas, in a violent, murderous way (see the
Sture murders)
and was eventually overthrown and imprisoned by his half brother John III
and was likely poisoned while imprisoned 8 years later. I'm not sure
who the two women are. One could be Karin Månsdotter, his mistress and
then queen. He had offered proposals to royalty in other countries too.
Though they could be biblical representations of temptations, since one
is kneeling holding an apple, the other is naked covering her breasts
with a snake-like devil near her. It seems like the guy doing the
super-curvy-back-supplicating bow would be someone in the court hoping
to avoid getting stabbed by Eric when he delivers a message to him.
