De prenosticacione hujus destructionis.
The Star Over the Northern Sky
A foreboding celestial omen of a castle's destruction is witnessed by three brothers who observe a star moving retrograde and then vanishing.
Some forewarning of this castle's destruction preceded it. In the year of our Lord 1327, at the same season of the year in which the destruction was carried out the following year, three brothers — three fra — stood in the upper room of the aforementioned castle around twilight, when only a few stars were yet visible, and they saw a star in the northern region which, abandoning its natural course, ran swiftly retrograde over a hundred paces and stood still there, and did not return, although the said brothers waited for its return for a considerable time.
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Hujus castri destructionem prenosticacio aliqua precessit. Anno domini mcccxxvii eodem tempore anni, quo sequenti anno destructio facta fuit, tres fra tres in cenaculo dicti castri circa crepusculum steterunt, cum adhuc pauce stelle apparerent, et viderunt unam stellam in plaga aquilonis, que pretermisso naturali cursu, retrogradob celeriter cucurrit ultra c passus, et stetit ibi, nec fuit reversa, licet dicti fratres reversionem ejus diucius expectarent.
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