De edificacione civitatis Insule sancte Marie.
The Gathering of Princes and the Fortification of Marienwerder
A great assembly of Polish and Pomeranian princes, fulfilling crusading vows, joins forces at the Island of Mary to fortify the castle of Marienwerder with an unprecedented army.
While the burgrave of Magdeburg was still at Kulm, because he had not yet fulfilled the desire of his vow, many princes arrived — namely from Poland: Duke Copradus, Duke of Kuyavia, Duke of Cracow, and Duke Henry of Wrocław, whom the Tatars later killed; likewise Duke Odowis of Gniezno, and many other noble and powerful men who lived from the Oder River to the Vistula, and from the Bobr River to the Netze; and Swantepolcusb, Duke of Pomerania, with his brother Sambor.12 These men, together with a large force of soldiers and armed men — the likes of which had never before been seen in Prussia — entered the city and, building up the city of the Island of Mary, fortified the castle that had been built earlier.3
Read the original Latin
Burgrabio de Megdeburgk adhuc existente in Colmine, quia necdum compleverat desiderium voti sui, supervenerunt multi principes, videlicet de Polonia: dux CoPradus, dux Cuyavie, dux Cracovie et de Wratislavia dux Henricus, quem Tartari postea occiderunt, item Odowis dux Gnisnensis, et multi alii nobiles viri et potentes, qui habitabant a flumine Odore usque ad fluvium Wisele, et a fluvio Bobare usque ad fluviuma Nicze, item Swantepolcusb dux Pomeranie cum fratre suo Samborio. Hii cum multitudine copiosa miliciec et armatorum, que nunquam tanta visa fuit in Prussia, intraverunt, et civitatem Insule sancte Marie construentes, castrum prius factum firmaverunt.
Notes
- 1 ↩desiderium voti sui — 'the desire of his vow' refers to the burgrave's unfulfilled crusading vow; the phrasing is kept close to the Latin.
- 2 ↩fluviuma (token 60) appears to be a scribal error for fluvium; translated as 'Netze' per normalized reading.
- 3 ↩miliciec is a rare/uncertain form; rendered as 'soldiers' per context and normalized reading.
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