De destructione trium proprugnaculorum, et occisione mille et pluriu.
The Cauldron of Sacred Rites and the Fall of Three Fortresses
A dispute over a sacred Prussian cauldron escalates into a fierce battle in which the brothers destroy three fortresses and slay nearly all 1,300 defenders, losing only their marshal.
Of the Prussians. After these things, a dispute arose between the brothers' household and the Prussians who were in the siege, over a particular cauldron that was supposed to be carried from one fortress to another — the one in which the Prussians were accustomed to boil their consecrated things according to their own rite. For this fight the brothers came with 150 men, and a great war was waged between them. At last, with the Lord willing, the brothers obtained the cauldron by force, and pressing further ahead they completely destroyed those three fortresses, so that of the 1,300 men who had been assigned to defend them, scarcely anyone escaped death; and on the brothers' side, only the marshal fell, slain.
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Pruthenorum. Post hec surrexit quedamc altercacio inter familiam fratrum et Pruthenos existentes in obsidione pro quodam caldario, qui debebat deferri de uno propugnaculo ad aliud, in quo Prutheni consecrata secundum ritum ipsorum decoquere consueverunt. Ad hanc pugnam venerunt fratres cum cl viris, et factum fuit inter eos bellum magnum. Tandem fratres volente domino caldarium vio lenter optinuerunt, et procedentes ulterius illa tria propugnacula penitus destruxerunt, ita quod de mccc viris, qui ad defensionem ipsorum fuerant ordinati, vix aliquis mortem evasit, et de parte fratrum solus marscalcus cecidit interfectus.
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