De vastacione terre Carsovie. fcsr.
A Winter Campaign into Carsovie
Brother Conrad leads a large army into Carsovie in winter, but the enemy has already fled, so he burns buildings, kills a few men, and camps there for the night.
That same winter, Brother Conrad the Master entered the land of Carsovie with a very large army, and because the guides had lost the way, the unbelievers had already fortified themselves and fled to safe places. And so, apart from the great fire he set in the buildings, he captured a few men and killed them, and having pitched camp there he spent the night.
The Lord Protects on the Ice
While crossing the thin ice of Lake Curoniense, the army witnesses a wondrous event as the ice rises and falls like storm-tossed water, yet the Lord keeps everyone safe.
At last, when he was crossing the ice over Lake Curoniense with his army, a wondrous thing appeared there and broke apart. So thin was the ice that it rose and fell, just as water stirred by a strong wind in a storm surges up and down. And so the people now climbed the ice as if it were a mountain, and afterwards descended as if into a valley — yet in such a way that no one was submerged there, the Lord protecting them.
Read the original Latin
Hoc anno in hyeme frater Conradus magister cum maximo exercitu intravit terram Carsovie, et quia ductores erraveruntf in via, infideles premuniti fugerunt ad tuta loca. Ende preter incendium magnum, quod fecit in edificiis, paucos homines cepit et occidit, et fixis tentoriis ibi pernoctavit. Tandem cum transiret cum exercitu glaciem per stagnum Curoniense, miranda res ibi appa ruit. Tante teneritudinis fuit glacies, quod elevabatur et deprimebatur, sicut aqua in tempestate vento validog agitata vadit in altum et in bassum. Ende populus nunc ascendit glaciem, quasi montem, postea descendit, ut in vallem, ita tarnen quod nullus homo ibi submersus fuit domino protegente.
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