Het Luilekkerland – known in English as The Land of Cockaigne – is a 1567 oil painting by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. In medieval times, Cockaigne was a mythical lan
Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. Das Schlaraffenland 8940 Bavarian State Painting Collections
The print by Pieter Balten that inspired Bruegel (ca. 1560)
The copy attributed to Pieter van der Heyden (with flying bird)1525/1575
sleeping farmer in The Harvesters (1565)
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A flail is an agricultural hand tool used for threshing, the process of separating grains from their husks. It can also be used for military purposes being made in the same way as a threshing-flail bu
The Land of Cockaigne (Bruegel)
…peasant, and a soldier lie dozing on the ground underneath a table bound to a tree. The clerk's book, papers, ink and pen lie idle, as do the peasant's flail and the soldier's lance and gauntlet. A half-eaten egg in its shell runs between the peasant and the clerk. The table attached to the tree is laden…
Flails used in Britain
17th century drawing of a peasant revolt, showing a man swining a flail
Renaissance era combat manual featuring spiked flails
Mine flail mounted on a M4 Sherman tank