Case file · Witch trials
Anne Pedersdotter burned in Bergen
In 1590, Anne Pedersdotter, widow of the Bergen cathedral scholar Absalon Pederssøn Beyer, was burned as a witch after a second trial.
1590 CE · 60.40, 5.32 · status: official
The account
She had been acquitted in 1575. Accusers blamed her for deaths in the town. Her story inspired H. Wiers-Jensen's play 'Anne Pedersdotter' and Carl Theodor Dreyer's film 'Day of Wrath' (1943).