De vastacione terre Scalowie.
The Necessity of Severe Penance
Because easy pardon emboldens sin, the Scalovians must endure severe penance for their presumptuous crime lest they repeat it.
But because the ease of pardon gives an incentive to offend, it was necessary that the Scalovians should undergo severe penance for a crime of this kind — a presumptuous act — lest they attempt such things again.
Fire and Plunder Across Scalovia
The master leads brothers and a strong army through Scalovia, burning, plundering, slaughtering men, and leading away women and children in chains.
The master therefore gathered the brothers and a strong army to avenge the aforesaid. When they came into the land of Scalovia, they passed through it from one end to the other by fire and plunder, in the region that borders the land of Prussia. Having made a great slaughter of men, they led away the women and children bound in chains.
Stinegotaf's Pursuit and the Ambush
Stinegotaf pursues with a great army, but the master sets secret ambushes, kills many Scalovians, and puts the rest to flight.
Meanwhile, while these things were being done, Stinegotaf, captain of the Scalovians, followed them with a great army. When the master and brothers realized this, they set ambushes in secret and attacked the advancing army of the Scalovians. Having killed many of them, they put the rest to flight.
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Sed quia facilitas d venie incentivum tribuit delinquendi, necesse fuit, quod Scalowite de delicto hujusmodi presumpcionis gravem subirent penitenciam, ne talia de cetero attemptarent. Congregavit igitur magister et fratres validum exercitum in ulcionem premissorum, qui cum venirent in terram Scalowie, ipsam per incendium et rapinam pertransierunt a fine usque ad finem, in illa parte, que tangit terram Prussie, factaque strage magna hominume, mulieres et parvulos vinctos deduxerunt. Medio tempore, quo hec agerentur, Stinegotaf capitaneus Scalowitarum cum magno exercitu sequutus est eos, quod considerantes magister et fratres, positis occulte insidiis, exercitum Scalowitarum procedentem invaserunt et pluribus exs eis occisis, alios in fugam converterunt.
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