De secunda castri Barthenstein destructione.

The Sudowites Destroy Barthenstein

The Sudowites, enraged that the Bartians and other Prussians had submitted to the faith and the brothers, besieged and destroyed the fortress of Barthenstein, killing all they captured and reducing it to ashes.

When the Sudowites heard that the Bartians, Warmians, and other Prussians had once again submitted themselves to the faith and to the brothers, they were enraged. Gathering a great army, they furiously besieged the fortress of Barthenstein, which the Bartians had kept for their own use after the brothers' departure, and destroyed it, killing everyone they captured and reducing it all to ashes.¹²

Read the original Latin

Sudowite audientes, quod Barthi, Warmienses et alii Prutheni se fidei et fratribus iterum subjecissentc, indignati sunt, et convenientes cum magno exercitu, iraprovise obsederunt castrum Barthenstein, quod post recessum fratrum Barthi sibi ad usus suos reservaverant, destruxerunt, captis et occisis omnibus eciam in cinerem redegerunt.

Notes

1 ↩iraprovise: compound of ira + provise (anger + unadvisedly?); rendered 'furiously' to capture the likely sense of rage-driven action.
2 ↩subjecissentc: manuscript form uncertain; final c may be scribal error. Translated as pluperfect subjunctive 'had submitted,' the most plausible reading.

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