De impugnacione terre Sudowie et captivitale etmorte plurium Sudowilarum.
The Raid into Sudovia
Brother Ulrich the Bavarian led a force of fifteen brothers and two hundred and fifty mounted men into Sudovia, inflicting heavy losses, taking captives, and carrying off the wives and children of the Sudovian nobles.
While this army of the unfaithful was in the land of Samland, Brother Ulrich the Bavarian, commander of Tapiow, entered Sudovia with fifteen brothers and two hundred and fifty mounted men. Beyond the other damage he inflicted on the land, he took one hundred and fifty people captive and put them to death. He carried off the wives of the nobles, their sons and daughters, and their households — so that on this occasion the Sudovians lost more than they had gained in Samland.12
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Medio tempore, quo iste exercitus infidelium fuit in terra Sambie, frater Ulricus Bauwarusb commendator deTapiow cum xu fratribus et ccl viris equitibus intravit Sudowiam et preter alia damna quibus afflixit eam incendio et rapina cl homines cepit et occidit, uxores nobilium, filios et filias et familiam captivavit, sic quod Sudowite hic plus perdiderunt, quam in Sambia sunt lucrati.
Notes
- 1 ↩The Latin infidelium here refers to the pagan Prussian tribes (Sudovians) from the Teutonic Order's perspective, not to a generic theological category. The term is rendered as 'the unfaithful' to preserve the chronicler's usage without endorsing its framing.
- 2 ↩The numeral cl (=150) governs homines, while the preceding xu (=15) governs fratribus and ccl (=250) governs viris equitibus. The translation reflects this distribution.
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