De bello fratrum contra Pomesanos et de edificacione castri Insule.
Invocation of Holy Mary
The chapter opens with a brief invocation of Holy Mary.
Holy Mary.
Grace of the Cross and Preparation for the Campaign
Through the grace of the cross, forts are built and the faithless are cleansed from Colmen, preparing the way for the brothers' expedition.
After these forts had been built through the grace of the cross, and the old leaven of malice and wickedness of the faithless had been cleansed from the borders of the land of Colmen — so that God of our salvation might grant us a prosperous journey to the lands of neighboring nations, as some reckon with certainty — the master and brothers, having secretly prepared the supplies necessary for building forts, came by ship to the island. Chronicle of the Land of Prussia.✦
Part Three Heading
A section heading marks the transition to Part Three.
Part Three.
Building the Fort on the Island of Holy Mary
In 1233 the master and brothers erect a fort on a mound opposite Quidino, naming it the Island of Holy Mary.
From Quidino, as it were from opposite what is now the island of Holy Mary, and there in the year of our Lord 1233 they erected a fort on a certain mound, calling it the Island of Holy Mary.
Relocation of the Fort to Pomesania
The Magdeburg burgrave, arriving with forces at Colmen, joins the master and brothers in transferring the fort of the Island of Holy Mary from Quidino to Rysene in Pomesania, changing its location but not its name.
But while that noble man and active knight in arms from Saxony, the burgrave of Magdeburg — so called — was coming with a small force, surrounded by a large soldiery and many armored men, to the fort of Colmen, within the year in which he remained in that same place he went with the master and brothers, and transferred the aforementioned fort of the Island of Holy Mary from the island of Quidino to the place where it now stands, in the territory of Pomesania called Rysene, changing the location but not the name.
Read the original Latin
sancte Marie. Postquam hec castra per clei graciam essent edificata, et vetus fermentum malicie et nequicie infidelium esset a terre Colmensis finibus expurgatum, ut prosperum iter faceret nobis deus salutarium nostrorum ad terras gencium vicinarum, ut aliqui estimant pro certo, magister et fratres, preparatis eis, que ad edificacionem castrorum suntd necessaria, secrete venerunt navigio ad insulame CRONICA TERRE PRUSS1E. PARS III. de Quidino quasi ex opposito nunc Insule sancte Marie, et ibi anno domini mccxxxiii erexerunt in quodam tumuloa castrum, vocantes illud Insulam sancte Marie. Sed dum vir ille nobilis et miles strenuus in armis de Saxonia burgrabius de Megdeburgkb, dictus cum parva manu, multa stipatus milicia et armigeris veniretc ad castrum Colmen, infra annum, quo ibidem mansit, ivit cum magistro et fratribus, et'1 castrum Insule sancte Marie predictum transtulit de insula Quidini ad locum, ubi nunc est situm, in territorio Pomesanie dicto Rysene, mutantes locum et non nomen.
Scripture echoes
- ↩1Cor.5.8 — So let us keep the feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
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