De expugnacione duorum castrorum quorundam feodatariorum terre.
The Land of Kolm and Its Two Strongholds
The chapter opens by identifying the two castles of Kolm—Hemsot and another—that are the focus of the coming conflict.
Of Kolm, namely Hemsot and another.
Skumandus Ravages Kolm for Nine Days
Skumandus, captain of the Sudovians, leads a great army of Sudovians and Ruthenians in nine days of plundering and burning across the land of Kolm.
Finally, Skumandus, captain of the Sudovians, with the largest army of Sudovians and Ruthenians, ravaged the land of Kolm for nine days with plundering and burning.
The Traitor Nineric Enters Kolmen
A Polish soldier named Nineric enters the city of Kolmen, having secretly promised to surrender it to Skumandus.
Within those nine days, as the city of Kolmen began to be approached, a certain Polish soldier named Nineric entered the aforesaid city, which he had promised to hand over into the hands of the said Skumandus.
The Horn Signal and the Traitor's Exposure
Nineric climbs the walls and blows his horn as a prearranged signal to the enemy; the terrified citizens seize him, discover his intent, and hang him with his son and a servant before the city gate.
When the enemies were spotted, the citizens began to climb the walls, and that man climbed up too, and so on; just as the same traitor had given them a signal, he blew his horn on one occasion and another. When this was heard, the terrified citizens seized the said soldier; and having learned that he intended to hand them over, they hanged him and his son, along with one servant, before the city gate.
Skumandus Takes Hemsotd and Cippel's Castle
Discovering his betrayal, Skumandus storms the castle of Hemsotd, slays its defenders, then captures and destroys Cippel's castle, killing and taking prisoner all within.
Skumandus, seeing that he had been deceived, advanced on the castle of Hemsotd and took it by storm, killing forty men who had been assigned to its defense. Then he advanced on and entered, by force and in hostile fashion, the third castle belonging to the vassal soldier, the said Cippel; and after killing and capturing everyone found there, he reduced both castles to ashes.
Read the original Latin
Colmensis, scilicet Hemsot et alterius. Postremo Scumandus Sudowitarum capitaneus cum maximo exercitu Sudowitarum et Ruthenoruma terram Colmensem ix diebus rapina et incendio vexavit. Infra quos ix dies dum appropinquare cepit civitati Colmenseb, quidam miles de Polonia, dictus Nineric, predictam civitatem intravit, quam ipse miles promisit se ad manus dicti Scumandi traditurum. Unde dum visis hostibus cives menia ascenderent, ascendit et iste, etc, sicut idem traditor dedit eis signum, sic una et altera vice sufflavit cornu suum. Quo audito cives perterriti dictum militem ceperunt, et comperto, quod voluit eos tradere, ipsum et filium suum cum uno famulo ante portam civitatis suspenderunt. Scumandus videns se deceptum, processit ad castrum Hemsotd et ipsum potenter expugnavite, et xl viros, qui ad custodiam ejus deputati fuerant, interfecit. Deinde castrum al terius feodatarii militis, dicti Cippel, potenter et hostiliter intravit, et occisis et captis omnibus inibi existentibus, utrumque castrum in cineres est conversum.
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