MATEYS, LOOK ALIVE! Today your captain takes you on a journey to the medieval Baltic Sea to visit some of the toughest plunderers in history - the Curonians. Similar to their Viking counterparts to the West, Curonians were looking to assert their trading prowess, but prved to be just as or even more brutal in their pirating. Listen now!

NOTE: Your Captain referred to this time period as "pre-medieval" but she was WRONG! It is medieval times, no pre- about it.

REFERENCES:

Britannica Editors (2026, February 26). Teutonic Order. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Teutonic-Order

The Lithuania Tribune. (2016, June 18). Curonians, the fearsome pirates of the Baltic. Delfi. https://www.delfi.lt/en/culture/curonians-the-fearsome-pirates-of-the-baltic-71509824

Žulkus, V. (2012). Settlements and piracy on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea: The Middle Ages to modern times. Archaeologia Baltica, 16, 58–71. https://doi.org/10.15181/ab.v16i0.34