De destructione castri Birgelow.
The Fall of Birgelow
Trinotag leads a vast allied army against Prussian and neighboring territories, and his forces storm the fortress of Birgelow, plundering the brothers' goods, though three brothers and several others survive by defending themselves in a tower.
Trinotag, the son of the king of the Lethowini, gathered many other tribes to himself — up to thirty thousand men — for battle, drew them together, and as he approached the land of Prussia he divided his army into three columns, sending one against Mazovia and another against Pomesania, and he laid waste to both territories by plunder and fire. The remaining men entered the land of Culm, and besides the other evils they committed there, they stormed the fortress of Birgelow, carrying off the livestock and all the goods of the brothers and of those who had fled to that fortress for refuge. Three brothers and several other men, defending themselves in a certain tower, were saved.
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Trinotag filius regis Lethowinorum assumptis sibi pluribus aliis gentibus usque ad xxxa milia virorum ad prelium congregavit, et dum appropinquaret terre Prussie, divisit exercitum suum in tres turmas, quarum unam misit con tra Masoviam, aliam contra Pomesaniam, et utramque terram rapina et incendio devastavit. Reliqui intraverunt terram Colmensem, et preter alia mala, que ibidem fecerunt, castrum Birgelow expugnaverunt, pecora et omnem suppellectilem fratrum et eorum, qui ad dictum castrum confugerant, deducentes. Fra tres et alii homines in quadam turri se defendentes sunt salvati.
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