De adventu ducis dek Brunswick.
The Duke of Brunswick Comes to Prussia
Duke Otto of Brunswick arrives in Prussia with many pilgrims to aid the Teutonic brothers in their time of great need.
At this time—like cold water to someone who is thirsty, or good news from a distant land—that noble man Otto came to the land of Prussia: a man devoted to God, an illustrious prince and duke of Brunswick, also called duke of Lüneburg, arriving with a great multitude of pilgrims to support the brothers in their moment of grave necessity.✦12
Read the original Latin
Hoc tempore sicut aqua frigida sicienti, et bonus nuncius de terra longinqua, ita nobilis ille deo devotus Otto illustris princeps et dux de Brunswich, qui eciam de Luneburgk dicebatur, venit cum multitudine copiosa peregrinorum ad terram Prussie in subsidium fratribus in gravi necessitatis articulo constitutis.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Prov.25.25 — Cold water on a weary soul, and good news from a distant land.
Notes
- 1 ↩The similes 'cold water to one who thirsts' and 'good news from a distant land' echo biblical language (cf. Proverbs 25:25, 'As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country'), but the passage is narrative rather than directly scriptural.
- 2 ↩The form 'sicienti' (token 5) is rare and morphologically uncertain; translated as 'to someone who is thirsty' based on the most plausible intended sense.
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