De vastacione terre Nattangie et morte ccl Cristianorum.
The Devastation of Nattangia and the Slaughter of Christians
A Teutonic force from Lelhowia marched toward Nattangia but disbanded due to delay, and the following day a pagan army swept through Nattangia, killing and capturing 250 Christians.
During this master's time, six hundred men set out from Lelhowia toward Nattangia. Brother Cuno, the commendator from Brandenburg, having gathered his own subjects and fortified with them, waited for several days; but wearied by the tedium, he dismissed his people. On the following day, the aforementioned army of the infidels entered Nattangia, and devastating a great part of it through fire and plunder, killed and captured 250 Christian men.1
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Hujus magistri tempore sexcenti viri de Lelhowia profecti sunt versus Nattangiam, de quo exercitu frater Cuno commendator de Brandenburgk premunitus, congregatis subditis suis, dum eos per dies aliquot expectasset, fatigatus tedio dimisit populum suum. Sequenti die dictus exercitus infidelium intravit Nattangiam, et magnam partem ejus devastans per incendium et rapinam, occidit et cepit ccl liomines Cristianos.
Notes
- 1 ↩ccl = 250 (Roman numeral). liomines is a variant spelling of homines (men/people).
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