We're spending two nights in Murten or Morat. The lake is small with a circumference of about 25km. A few years ago we ran around it – but today we ran about six or seven kilometres before turning back. 13km is enough, these days. We're both out of shape, sadly.
Just after sunset, looking out over the lake.
Working on a half-enclosed patio until late into the night. There was drunken shouting to be heard until midnight, on a Monday. I did not know that this sleepy town was so rowdy!
The town itself looks unchanged from our last visit in 2018.
We ran over to the eastern side of the lake, a protected wetland.
Our destination was this village at the foot of Mont Vully. A rather small mountain.
It got rather hot so by the time we arrived in Sugiez, I was so very tired. My wife took this picture.
Canals connect the lake of Murten, the lake of Neuchâtel and the lake of Bienne. So many motorboats with proud men and underdressed women going up and down the channel. 🙄
The first sunflowers are out! My wife took this picture.
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On 22 June 1476, Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, laid siege to the place in an action known as the Battle of Morat. The town hung on for 13 days but finally was saved by the Bernese army. The enemy's army was destroyed completely — some 10,000 Burgundians were killed. Since then, Murten celebrates the victory every year on June 22. – Murten, Wikipedia
I was impressed with a black and white image of the battle on the Wikipedia page but felt it didn't have enough resolution. I started looking for a better scan. e-rara, "the platform for digitized rare books from Swiss institutions" has the book!
A black and white depiction of the battle
Die Schlacht bei Murten, Seite 265, aus Stumpf, Johannes: Gemeiner loblicher Eydgnoschafft Stetten, Landen und Völckeren Chronick wirdiger Thaaten Beschreybung [...]. Getruckt Zürych in der Eydgnoschafft : bey Christoffel Froschouer, 1548. Zentralbibliothek Zürich., AW 40: 1-2
In the common room of our place in Murten, I found a very nice reproduction of an image from the Lucerne Chronicle and took a photo using my phone.
A colourful depiction of the battle
Diebold Schilling der Jüngere: Luzerner Chronik. Doppelseitige Blätter 107b/108a, um 1511–1513
All these cruelties of war. The guy that climbed a tree and gets stabbed. The decapitated corpses, some of them stripped naked. The people hanging from the tree. The soldiers drowning. Ooof!
Apparently the Lucerne Chronicles can be found in e-codices, Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland. "The goal of e-codices is to provide free access to all medieval and a selection of modern manuscripts of Switzerland by means of a virtual library." The book is in the public domain and yet the site says CC BY NC 4.0.
When I looked at page 107, I didn't see the image above, however. Some more investigation is required.
Actually, I did find it! Pages 218–219 are the ones I was looking for. I downloaded the "large" pages, stitched them together in Gimp, saved them using 80% quality (😥) and uploaded them.
