De destructione plurium castrorum et subjugacione Pomesanorum.
The Conquest of Reysen
The margrave boldly attacks the territory of Reysen with plunder and fire, storming and destroying the Prussian fortifications near the river Mockeram and reducing everything to ashes.
In the land of Pomesania there was a certain territory called Reysen, in which famous men and valiant warriors dwelt — men the aforementioned prince, putting his hand to the plough and not looking back, boldly attacked with plunder and fire and, by the frequent shedding of the blood of the infidels, laid waste again and again.✦ Their fortress, situated near the river Mockeram, and all the fortifications they had in that place — which is called Stumo, near Postelin, near Rysenburgk and Rysenkirchen, near the lake Drusine and Wildenbergk — after the infidels had been killed and captured, he powerfully stormed and, reducing everything to ashes, leveled the land flat with the ground.
The Lion-Like Margrave
The chronicler declares that no words or writing can adequately capture the margrave's lion-like boldness in attacking the Prussian peoples.
But how powerfully and how boldly the aforementioned margrave — like a lion who fears the approach of no one — attacked those peoples, no one could set forth in words or in writing alone.✦
Submission and Governance of the Converted
The fierce hostility of the margrave compels the Prussians to submit to the faith and the brothers, after which the new converts are governed according to granted agreements and liberties.
So fiercely hostile was he to them in war that they submitted themselves to the faith and to the brothers. And according to the agreements and liberties that were being granted to them at that time, the other new converts were subsequently governed.
Read the original Latin
In terra Pomesanie fuit quoddam territorium dictum Reysen, in quo viri famosi et bellatores strenui morabantur, quos dictus princeps, mittens manum ad aratrum, et non respiciens retro, viriliter est aggressus rapina et incendio et multa sanguinis infidelium effusione sepius devastando. Castrum ipsorum, situm circa fluvium Mockeram, et omnia propugnacula, que habebant in illoloco, qui dicitur Stumo, circa Postelin, circa Rysenburgk et Rysenkirchen, circa stagnum Drusine et Wildenbergk, occisis et captis infidelibus, potenter expugnavit, et in cinerem redigendo terre alteri coequavit. Sed quam potenter quamque viriliter prefatus marchio tanquam leo, qui ad nullius pavet occursum, dictas gentes impugnavit, nemo posset verbis aut calamo singulariter explicare. Tamque infestus fuit eis in bello, quod se fidei et fratribus subdiderunt. Et secundum pacta et libertates, que ipsis tune dabantur, alii neophiti postea regebantur.
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