De expugnacione castri Starkenbergk, et morte plurium fratrum e.
The Siege of Starkenbergk
The Prussians, enraged by the construction of the fortress Starkenbergk, gather a strong army and lay siege to it.
Of the Christians. The Prussians, hearing of the construction of the said fortress, were enraged, and with a strong army they laid siege to it.
The Martyrdom of Brother Conrad
Brother Conrad of Blindenburg goes forth to battle, receives five wounds in imitation of Christ's five wounds, and is killed.
But Brother Conrad of Blindenburg, going out to meet them in battle, was wounded with five wounds in the manner of the five wounds of Christ, and was killed, for whom he himself had often pleaded with the Lord with tears.
The Assault and Defense
The Prussians fortify their positions and advance, while the brothers resist fiercely, killing many with arrows and inflicting deadly wounds.
Then the Prussians, fortifying the fortress on all sides for the assault, advanced in hostile fashion. The brothers, standing opposite them in resistance, killed many with their arrows and inflicted deadly wounds.
The Fall of the Fortress
The Prussians, resolved to die rather than fail, storm the fortress after great slaughter, kill all the brothers and inhabitants, and burn it to ashes.
At last, the Prussians, provoked to fury, chose rather to all die than to withdraw from the siege with their purpose unfulfilled, and drawing near after great slaughter on both sides, they stormed the said fortress, and having killed the brothers along with all its inhabitants, they reduced it to ashes.
The Fortress Reborn
Many years later, the fortress is relocated above the Osa River in the diocese of Chełmno, where it endures to the present day.
Many years later, the said fortress was relocated above the Osa River in the diocese of Chełmno, and there it remains to this present day.
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Cristianorum. Prutheni audientes dicti castri edificacionem, indignati sunt, et cum valido exercitu obsederunt. Sed frater Conradus de Blindenburgk' exiens ad eos in prelium, vulneratus fuit quinque vulneribus ad modum quinque vulnerum Cristi, et occisus, pro quo ipse domino sepius cum lacrimis supplicavit. Deinde Prutheni vallantes undique castrum ad impugnacionem hostiliter processerunt. Fratres ex adverso se opponentes multos sagittis occiderunt, et letaliter vulnerabant. Tandem Prutheni provocati in iram, elegerunt pocius omnes mori, quam infecto negocio ab obsidione recedere, et accedentes propius post multorum utriusque partis occisionem, dictum castrum expugnaverunt, et occisis fra tribus cum omnibus habitatoribus suis ipsum in favillam redegerunt. Post mul tos annos postea dictum castrum translatum fuit supra Ossam in diocesim Colmensem, et ibi usque in diem permanet hodiernum.
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