De desolacione castri Girdawie.
The Siege and Burning of Girdaw
Girdaw, a faithful zealot, holds his castle against apostate countrymen but, after enduring many assaults and exhausting his supplies, burns it with his household and returns to the brothers at Königsberg.
At this time, a certain man called Girdaw — whose descendants are still called Rendaliad — a zealot of the faith and of the faithful, held a castle in the land of Rarthensi called by his own name, Girdaw. After enduring many wars and assaults from his own countrymen — apostates all — and when his supplies had entirely run out, he burned the castle with his entire household and family, and returned to the brothers at Königsberg.
The Massacre at Waistotepila
The brothers' castle of Waistotepila in Rarthensi becomes the site of a deadly Prussian ambush in which six brothers and many Christians are slain.
Concerning the violent death of brothers and many Christians in the castle of Waistotepila. In the same land of Rarthensi, as some report, the brothers had a castle called Waistotepila, situated on the shore of the river Gobrionis. These brothers one day pursued an army of Prussians who had plundered two villages there. But the Prussians, bursting forth from the ambushes they had set, killed six brothers and many Christians.
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Hoc tempore quidam dictus Girdaw, cujus progenies adhuc dicitur Rendaliad, zelator fidei et fidelium, habuit in terra Rarthensi castrum dictum a no mine suo Girdaw. Hic post multa bella et impugnaciones, quas a compatriotis" suis apostatis sustinuit, dum omnino deficeret ei victus, combusto Castro cum omni domo et familia sua ad fratres de Kunigsbergk repedavit. De morte vi fratrum et plurium Cristianorum in Castro Waistotepila.' m <ioo) In eadem terra Rarthensi, ut quidam referunt, fratres habebant castrum dictum Waistotepilam, situm in littore fluvii Gobrionis. Qui fratres quodam die exercitum Pruthenorum, qui duas viHas ibi depredaverat, sunt sequuti. Sed Prutheni erumpentes de insidiis, quas statuerant, sex fratres et* plures Cristianos occiderunt.
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