De bello fralrum de Redino et destructione civitatis ibidem.
The Suffering of Reddin
The brothers and townspeople of Reddin endured unspeakable suffering and slaughter at the hands of the Prussians during the second apostasy, as the city was stormed twice and all its men captured and killed.
No one could fully write or tell how much the brothers and townspeople of Reddin suffered during the second apostasy for defending the Christian faith at the hands of the Prussians, because through that place there was, as it were, a constant coming and going of them into the land of Culm.12 Some report that the city of Reddin was stormed two times, and that all the men who were found there were captured and killed.34
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Nullus posset ad plenum scribere vel dictare, quanta fratres et burgienses de Redino infra -secundam apostasiam passi sunt pro defensione fidei cristiane a Pruthenis, quia per illum locum quasi continue fuit introitus et exitus ipsorum ad terram Colmensem. Referunt quidam, quod civitas de Redino duabus vicibus fuerits expugnata, captique et occisi, quotquot reperti fuerant homines ibidem 1.
Notes
- 1 ↩apostasia here refers to a specific episode of defection or rebellion (the 'second apostasy'), not the general theological sense.
- 2 ↩The hyphen before secundam in the normalized text reflects a source-text correction carried over from the raw reading.
- 3 ↩fuerits is a likely scribal error for fuerit (perf. subj. 3sg.) or fuerunt (perf. ind. 3pl.); translated as 'was' following the most plausible intended reading.
- 4 ↩captique uses the enclitic -que to coordinate with occisi; rendered as 'captured and' to preserve the pairing.
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