Editing Stockholm Bloodbath (section)

==Later reception and propaganda==
The Stockholm Bloodbath precipitated a lengthy hostility towards Danes in Sweden, and from then on the two nations were almost continuously hostile toward each other. These hostilities, developing into a struggle for [[hegemony]] in the Scandinavian and North German area, lasted for nearly three hundred years. Memory of the Bloodbath served to let Swedes depict themselves (and often, actually regard themselves) as the wronged and aggrieved party, even when they were the ones who eventually took the political and military lead, such as the conquest and annexation of [[Scania]] until the [[Treaty of Roskilde]] in 1658.<ref>Frost, Robert I. (2000) ''The Northern Wars. War, State and Society in Northeastern Europe 1558–1721'' (Harlow: Pearson Education Limited); {{ISBN|978-0-582-06429-4}}</ref>

===Christian the Tyrant and spurious "Christian the Good"===
The event earned Christian II the nickname of ''Kristian Tyrann'' (''Christian [the] Tyrant'') in Sweden, which is retained in the present day.<ref name="Liljegren2004">{{cite book|author=Bengt Liljegren|title=Rulers of Sweden|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dDhpAAAAMAAJ|access-date=6 July 2013|year=2004|publisher=Historiska Media|isbn=978-91-85057-63-4|page=67}}</ref> It is a common misconception in Sweden that King Christian II is given the contrary byname {{lang|da|Christian den Gode}} (''Christian the Good'') in Denmark, but this is [[apocrypha]]l.<ref name="Olsen2004">{{cite book|author=Rikke Agnete Olsen|title=41 fortællinger om folk i fædrelandets historie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0sjAQAAMAAJ|access-date=6 July 2013|year=2004|publisher=Lindhardt og Ringhof|language=da|isbn=978-87-595-2373-5|page=149}}</ref>

According to Danish historians, no bynames have been given to Christian II in Danish historical tradition. In an interview with Gunnar Richardson in 1979, Danish historian [[Mikael Venge]], author of the article about Christian II in ''[[Dansk Biografisk Leksikon]] ''said: "I think you ought to protest the next time the Swedish radio claims anything so utterly unfounded that could be understood as if the Danes approved of the Stockholm bloodbath." Despite this, even today, tourist guides in Stockholm spice up their guiding of the Old Town ([[Gamla Stan]]) with the news about Christian II's "rehabilitation" back in Denmark.<ref name="Richardson">Gunnar Richardson, [https://web.archive.org/web/20020901122731/http://www.dagensforskning.se/article_serie.asp?article_id=736 "Kristian II – Tyrann eller den gode?"], ''Dagens Forskning'', 13 May 2002. {{dead link|date=May 2015}}</ref>