Despite the generous law there has still been people that did exactly that. But to be fair, around the early 1800s Denmark was broke as hell, no meaningul government, a sickly king, so a lot of things went wrong there. Including the British coming over to trash the Danish fleet just for funsies. And Danish forests being down to just 1-2% of its whole territory (but we’re back to over 20% now).
I had this borderline nightmare thought of people creating gold and silver bars out of historical finds if they didn’t. Good law.
Despite the generous law there has still been people that did exactly that. But to be fair, around the early 1800s Denmark was broke as hell, no meaningul government, a sickly king, so a lot of things went wrong there. Including the British coming over to trash the Danish fleet just for funsies. And Danish forests being down to just 1-2% of its whole territory (but we’re back to over 20% now).