De occisione xxv Lethowinorum per fratres de Raganita.
The Lithuanian Raid and Its Frustration
Emboldened Lithuanians launch a raid from Ukermünde but discover through lot-casting that the venture is doomed and turn back.
From this outcome the Lithuanians gained great boldness, so much so that on the following feast of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, thirty-six men sallied out from the border region of the castle of Ukermünde and dared to carry out their raids against the brothers of Ragnit. As they were approaching, casting lots according to their custom, it was discovered that the venture was not destined to succeed for them.
The Brothers of Ragnit Strike Back
The Teutonic brothers at Ragnit dispatch scouts, learn of the retreating raiders, and overtake them in the field, killing twenty-five.
Whereupon they immediately set out on the return journey. The brothers from Ragnit, however, troubled by the destruction of their men and taking precautions against the danger that lay ahead, sent messengers to guard the roads. One of them came back in haste and said he had seen the aforementioned raiders. Whereupon Brother Ludwig from Liebenthal and Brother Marquard from Reval, along with two brothers and twenty-six men-at-arms, followed and fell upon them in a certain field, and killed twenty-five of them.
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Ex hoc eventu Lethowini magnam audaciam sumpserunt, sic quod in die nativitatis beati Joannis Baptiste proximo sequenti de confinio castri Oukaymb xxxvi viri egredientes ausi fuerunt contra fratres de Raganita sua latrocinia exercere. Qui dum appropinquarent, mittentes sortem secundum ritum eorum, compertum fuit, quod eis prospere succedere non deberet. Unde statim iter redeundi sunt aggressiv Fratres vero de Raganita turbati de interitu suorum, fu turum periculura precaventes, miserunt nuncios, qui vias custodirent, quorum unus cum festinacione'reversus, ait, se predictos latrunculos vidisse. Unde frater Lodewicus de Libencele et frater Marquardus de Revelinge cum duobus fratribus et xxvi armigeris sequuti, invaserunt eos in quodam campo et xxv ex eis occiderunt.
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