De conversione cujusdam nobilis et mille quingentorum de Sudowia e.
The Desolation of Sudovia
The land of Sudovia lies desolate after countless wars waged against its people.
by the desolation of the aforementioned land. Countless are the wars waged against the Sudovians, which I pass over for the sake of brevity.
The Noble Conversion of Jedetusf
Jedetusf, a powerful Sudovian captain, surrenders to the brothers with his household and fifteen hundred followers and receives baptism.
After therefore Jedetusf, a certain man noble in both birth and character, powerful and wealthy, a captain of the Sudovians from Kymenovia, could no longer endure the brothers' so frequent and harsh attacks, he went over to the brothers with his entire household and family and with a thousand five hundred men of mixed sex, and was baptized.1
Scurdo's Rejection and the Land's Ruin
Scurdo scorns the faith and flees to Lithuania, leaving Sudovia desolate to this day.
But Scurdo, captain of the other part of Sudovia, having scorned the religion of the faith, set out with his men toward the land of Lithuania, and so the land of Sudovia remains desolate to the present day.2
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desolacione dicte terre. Mulla et infinita sunt contra Sudowitas bella gesta, que causa brevitatis pertranseo. Postquam ergo Jedetusf quidam vir nobilis et genere et moribus potems et dives, capitaneus Sudowitarum deKymenovia, non posset tam crebras et duras fratrum impugnaciones a modo sustinere, cum omni domo et familia sua et mille et quingentis hominibus promiscui' sexus cessit ad fratres et baptizatus est. Sed Scurdo capitaneus alterius partis Sudowie spreta religione fidei cum suis hominibus versus terram Lethowie est profectus, et sic terra Sudowie usque in presentem diem remanet desolata.
Notes
- 1 ↩cum at token 27 rendered as causal ('since/because') — could also be temporal ('after') or concessive ('although'); causal chosen as most natural reading given the context of motive for conversion.
- 2 ↩cum at token 9 rendered as preposition 'with' (accompanying his men); could also function as conjunction 'since/although' — prepositional reading chosen as most natural.
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