De morte xlv Lethowinorum.
The Slaying of Forty-Five Lethowians
Mucko of Warmia, with only nineteen companions, ambushes and slays forty-five Lethowian horsemen in the wilderness.
. That same year, a certain man from the bishopric of Warmia called Mucko, heading toward Lethowia with nineteen bandits, came upon forty-five Lethowian horsemen in the wilderness; he cleverly surrounded them and killed them all.
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. Eodem anno et tempore quidam de episcopatu Warmiensi dictus Mucko cum xix latrunculis vadens versus Lethowiam, invenit xlv equites Lethowinos in solitudine, et subtiliter circumveniens eos omnes interfecit.
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