grodeks

Updated: May 26, 2025

Those knights, living in castles and grodeks on the frontier, who according to the custom learned from the Germans, had become robbers or waged war among themselves, at the command of the queen, put their swords in their scabbards, released their prisoners without ransom, restored stolen herds and clasped hands in friendship.

Henryk Sienkiewicz - The Knights of the Cross: or, Krzyzacy