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Updated: June 27, 2025
"He dictated it to me," he said, "the night he went to Szczytno". And he did not expect to return." "But why did you say nothing?" "I said nothing, because he admitted his intentions to me under the seal of confession." "May God give him eternal peace, and may the light of glory shine upon him...." "Do not say prayers for him. He is still alive.
"And understand that you are in the power of the knights," remarked the pontnik. "They do not wish to do you any harm, and the starosta of Szczytno sends you his word by us that you shall go free from his castle; but they want you, for the wrong done to them, to present your respects to the Teuton, and beg for the victor's mercy.
"Are you not afraid to go to Szczytno?" asked Macko. "I am not afraid," replied Jagienka, "God is with me, because I am an orphan." "There is no faith there. The worst dog was Danveld whom Jurand killed together with Godfried.... The Bohemian told me so.
May be that from the voice he thought he was in the presence of a young woman; but his hand happened to touch the cowskin gaiters which the knights and armor-bearers were accustomed to wear. But she said: "It shall be so; our wagons will soon be here, then you will rest and refresh yourself. But we are not going to take you now to Mazowsze because we must first go to Szczytno."
He then engaged a guide and ordered him to lead them directly to Szczytno; although there was no need of a guide, because the road from Niedzborz was a straight one, marked with white milestones. The guide was a few steps in advance.
He told us: 'Not the Teutons, but he released von Bergow and all the prisoners he had underground, God knows why! he himself again rode away without any warrior or servant.... He said that he was riding after robbers to ransom Danusia, and ordered me to wait. And I waited until the news from Szczytno arrived, that Jurand had slain Germans and fallen himself. Oh! gracious lord!
But I surmise that as he was never the starosta of Szczytno, he left it; perhaps he feared the grand master's orders, which were, they say, to give up the little lamb to the Mazovian court. Perhaps that very letter was the cause of his flight, because his soul burned within him with pain and vengeance for Rotgier who, they say now, was Zygfried's own son.
It is true that you remain here, but perfectly secure. The name of Jurand I have learned in Szczytno, is still a terror to the Germans, and if they learn that he is now at Spychow they will be terrified at once." "We know that they will not dare to come here, because the swamps and old Tolima defend this place, but it will be hard to sit here without news."
"I did not recognize him at first, although I saw him later than you did. But it struck me, and the more I looked at him the more so.... Though when I first saw him he had neither beard nor white hair; he was then a very powerful lord. How then could I recognize him in the old beggar. But when the young lady said that we were going to Szczytno, and he began to howl my eyes were opened at once."
Such was the manner of living of that once powerful and terrible knight of Spychow, since his return from his captivity in Szczytno. Now, when he heard them arrive, he kicked aside the tame she-wolf which gnawed at his bare feet, It was then that Jurand appeared to the Bohemian like a real corpse.
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