De depredacione terre Lubowie et lxv Lethowinorum morte.
The Raid on Lubovia
Lithuanian raiders invade the land of Lubovia, killing two hundred Christians through slaughter and capture.
After this, some other raiders from Lithuania invaded five villages in the land of Lubovia in hostile fashion, and killed two hundred Christians, some having been captured, others partly slain.
Tracking the Raiders
Brothers from Christburg pursue the raiders into the wilderness and discover from their tracks that the force has split into two bands.
The brothers from Christburg followed them, and when they had come into the wilderness, they observed from their tracks that the raiders had split themselves into two bands.
The Pursuit and Rescue
The brothers divide into two groups, one killing sixty-five raiders and freeing seventy Christian captives, while the other rescues five Christian boys.
From there they too divided themselves and their men into two groups, and one group seized a band of the infidels and killed sixty-five men from it, and freed seventy Christian captives. The other group of brothers found no one except five Christian boys, whom they led away with them.
The Destruction of the Raiders
A truthful report reveals that few Lithuanians escaped unharmed, as some drowned, others starved, and still others hanged themselves from grief.
Afterward the brothers learned from a truthful report that few of those Lithuanians returned unharmed. For some had drowned on the way, the rest were consumed by hunger, and the others hanged themselves out of grief.
Read the original Latin
Posthec quidam alii latrunculi de Lethowia v villas in terra Lubowie hostiliter invaserunt, et cc Cristianos aliis captis partimb occiderunt. Quos fratres de Cristburgk sequentes, dum venissent in solitudinem, consideraverunt in vestigiis eorum, quod divisissent se in duas turmas. Unde et ipsi se et suos in duas partes diviserunt, quarum una comprehendit turmam unam infidelium, et occidit ex ea lxv viros et lxx cristianos homines liberavit. Alia pars fratrum non invenit nisi quinque pueros cristianos, quos secum duxit. Postea fratres intellexerunt relacione veridica, quod pauci de istis Lethowinis sani redierunt. Quibusdam enim submersis in via, reliquis consumptis inedia, ceteri se pre tristicia suspenderunt.
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