De secunda destructione Oukaym, et vastacione territorii ejus.
The Fall of Oukaym
The commander of Königsberg captures Oukaym castle through betrayal, destroys it, and the castellan Swirtil receives baptism.
That same year, during Lent, Brother Eberardus, the commander of Königsberg, marched with a larger army than before toward the castle of Oukaym, which a certain castellan called Swirtil—a friend of the faith and of the faithful—handed over to the brothers. They entered and killed every male they found, captured the women and children, and led them away, destroying the castle utterly once again. Swirtil himself, along with his whole household, followed the brothers and received the grace of baptism.
Wasteland and Loss
The army ravages the surrounding territory, and Brother Henry of Wolpherstorphd is fatally crushed beneath his shield on a narrow road.
The rest of the army entered the territory of the aforementioned castle, and after capturing many men and killing others, they seized everything they found there and set it ablaze. In this campaign, thirty Christians fell by the sword, and Brother Henry of Wolpherstorphd fell beneath the stockades, and the whole army passed over him. So narrow was the road that no one could get around him unless they passed over him. He had placed a shield over himself, but when he could not raise himself up, he was crushed to pieces beneath it.
Brother Henry's Miraculous Recovery
Brother Henry miraculously rises after the army passes, suffers further violence seeking a horse, briefly claims a mysterious black horse, then loses both horse and servant to vanishing.
At last, with God's help, after the army had passed by he got up, and since he had no horse, he saw from a distance a servant sitting on a horse and leading another horse of black color by hand. He approached the man with prayers, asking him to lend him one horse, but the servant, angered, charged at him on horseback and knocked him to the ground, trampling him again and again. In the meantime, Brother Henry seized the bridle of that black horse and claimed it for himself. Mounting it, he rode off toward the brothers' army, crossing back and forth ten times, asking whose that black horse was—but he found no one who recognized it. And so, having let the horse go, just as he had first lost his servant, he lost the horse as well. For both of them vanished, since no one was ever able to perceive where they had gone.
Read the original Latin
Eodem anno in Quadragesima idem frater Eberardus commendator deKunigsbergk cum majori exercitu quam prius ivit versus castrum Oukaym, quod quidam castrensis dictus Swirtil, fidei etc fidelium amicus tradidit fratribus, qui intrantes omne, quod fuit sexus masculini, interfecerunt, mulieres et parvulos captos deduxerunt, castrum funditus iterum 2 destruentes. Ipse autem Swir til et tota familia sequentes fratres baptismi graciam perceperunt. Reliqua pars exercitus intravit territorium dicti castri, et captis multis hominibus et occisis, rapuit quicquid in eo reperit et incendit. In hoc exercitu xxx Cristiani gladio ceciderunt, et frater Henricus de Wolpherstorphd infra indagines 5 cecidit, et totus exercitus transivit eum. Adeo arta fuit via, quod nullus poterat vitare, nisi transiret eum. Clipeuse, quem super se posuit, dum se erigere non posset, contritus fuit in minuta frustaf. Tandem, deo juvante, post transitum eorum surrexit, et dum non haberet equum, vidit a longe famulum sedentem in equo, et ducentem alium equum nigri coloris in manu sua, quem cum precibus aggrederetur, ut ei unum equum accommodaret, ille indignatus cursitans super eum dejecit ad terram iterum et iterum percalcavit. Inter hec frater Henricus frenum dicti nigri equi rapuit, et optinuit, et ascendens declinavit ad exercitum fratrum, transiensque x vicibus, querens, cujus esset equus iste niger, nemi nem invenit, qui eum cognosceret, et dimisso equo, sicut primo perdidit famu lum, ita et equum.
Evanuerunt enim ambo, quod nunquam potuit aliquiss percipere, quo devenissent.
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