The chronicle of the Slavs
By: by Helmold, priest of Bosau ; translated with introduction and notes by Francis Joseph Tschan.
Contributors: Tschan, Francis Joseph.
Series: Records of civilization : sources and studies -- no.21
Publisher: Octagon Books
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; und
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Slavs -- Germany.; Polabian Slavs -- History -- Sources.; Germany -- History -- 843-1273.
Description: xii, 321 p. illus., map. 24 cm.
Notes: Reprint of: originally published by Columbia University Press, 1935.

English translation of Chronica Slavorum by Helmold of Bosau (ca. 1120-1177)
Table of contents: title: Preface … vii; title: Contents … ix; title: ◦; title: Introduction … 1; title: The background of Helmold’s Chronicle … 3; title: The Church on the frontier  … 10; title: Helmold’s life … 19; title: Helmold and his critics … 26; title: Helmold’s style … 33; title: The transmission of the text … 36; title: ◦; title: THE CHRONICLE OF THE SLAVS:  BOOK ONE; title: ◦; title: [Preface] … 43; title: 1. The divisions of the Slavs … 45; title: 2. The city of Jumne … 48; title: 3. How Charles converted the Saxons to the faith … 53; title: 4. The division of the kingdom … 56; title: 5. The mission of Saint Ansgar in Sweden … 57; title: 6. The conversion of the Rugiani … 59; title: 7. The persecution of the Northmen … 61; title: 8. The invasion of the Hungarians … 64; title: 9. The conversion of Harold … 66; title: 10. Duke Hermann … 68; title: 11. Archbishop Adalbert … 70; title: 12. Bishop Marco … 71; title: 13. Bishop Wago … 73; title: 14. The treachery of Billug … 75; title: 15. Svein, the King of the Danes … 78; title: 16. How the Slavs relinquished the faith … 81; title: 17. Bishop Unwan … 85; title: 18. Bishop Bernhard … 87; title: 19. The persecution of Gottschalk … 90; title: 20. The faith of Gottschalk … 92; title: 21. The war of the Tholenzi … 93; title: 22. The rebellion of the Slavs … 95; title: 23. The passion of Saint John, the Bishop … 98; title: 24. The first defection of the Slavs from the faith … 98; title: 25. Cruto … 99; title: 26. The death of Butue … 104; title: 27. The building of the Harzburg … 105; title: 28. The public penance of King Henry … 107; title: 29. [The miserable death of Rudolph, Duke of Swabia] … 109; title: 30. [How the Emperor Henry drove the Pope from Rome] … 111; title: 31. The letter of Peter the Monk … 112; title: 32. The humiliation of the Emperor Henry … 113; title: 33. [The rising of the son against the father] … 116; title: 34. The death of Cruto … 120; title: 35. The death of Count Gottfried … 123; title: 36. The slaughter of the Rugiani … 124; title: 37. The Victory of Mistue … 127; title: 38. The Expedition of the Slavs into the land of the Rugiani … 128; title: 39. The massacre of the Romans … 132; title: 40. The battle of Welfesholz … 134; title: 41. The election of Lothar … 138; title: 42. Bishop Vicelin … 140; title: 43. Death of Ludolph the Priest … 142; title: 44. The Provost Thietmar … 143; title: 45. [Vicelin’s departure into Gaul] … 144; title: 46. The arrival of Vicelin in Slavia … 146; title: 47. The repentance of the Nordalbingians … 148; title: 48. Zuentepolch … 150; title: 49. Cnut … 152; title: 50. Nicholas … 154; title: 51. Eric … 156; title: 52. The rites of the Slavs … 158; title: 53. The building of Segeberg … 160; title: 54. The death of the Emperor Lothar … 162; title: 55. The persecution of Pribislav … 163; title: 56. The death of Duke Henry … 166; title: 57. The building of the city of Lübeck … 168; title: 58. [The translation of the monastery of Segeberg to Cuzelina] … 169; title: 59. The blessed Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux … 170; title: 60. Kings Conrad and Louis … 172; title: 61. The storming of Lisbon … 174; title: 62. Niclot … 175; title: 63. The burning of the ships … 177; title: 64. Gerlav, the priest … 178; title: 65. The siege of Demmin … 180; title: 66. The famine … 181; title: 67. The death of Etheler … 182; title: 68. Duke Henry … 187; title: 69. Archbishop Hartwig … 188; title: 70. Count Adolph … 192; title: 71. Niclot … 194; title: 72. King Conrad … 195; title: 73. The passing away of the provost Thietmar … 197; title: 74. His burial … 200; title: 75. The sickness of Bishop Vicelin … 201; title: 76. [The market at Lübeck] … 203; title: 77. Bishop Evermod … 204; title: 78. The passing away of Vicelin … 205; title: 79. How Vicelin gave sight to a blind woman … 206; title: 80 (79). Gerold, Bishop of Oldenburg … 208; title: 81 (80). The consecration of the Emperor Fred¬erick … 211; title: 82 (81). The hanging of the Veronese … 214; title: 83 (82). The reconciliation of bishops Hartwig and Gerold … 215; title: 84 (83). The conversion of Pribislav … 218; title: 85 (84). The death of Cnut … 225; title: 86 (85). The building of Löwenstadt … 228; title: 87 (86). The siege of Milan … 229; title: 88 (87). The killing of Niclot … 232; title: 89 (88). Albert the Bear … 235; title: 90 (89). The translation of the Bishopric of Oldenburg … 236; title: 91 (90). The schism between Alexander and Victor … 236; title: 92 (91). The tithes of the Holzatians … 239; title: 93 (92). The captivity of Vratislav … 242; title: 94 (95). The dedication of Neumünster … 245; title: 95 (96). The passing of Bishop Gerold … 247; title: ◦; title: THE CHRONICLE OF THE SLAVS: BOOK TWO; title: ◦; title: 96. The preface of the following work … 251; title: 97 (1). Bishop Conrad … 252; title: 98 (2). [The massacre of the Flemings] … 254; title: 99 (3). Bishop Bern … 257; title: 100 (4). The hanging of Vratislav … 258; title: 101 (5). The burial of Count Adolph … 262; title: 102 (6). The restoration of Demmin … 263; title: 103 (7). The princes’ envy of the Duke’s glory … 265; title: 104 (8). The sack of Bremen … 267; title: 105 (9). The expulsion of Bishop Conrad … 268; title: 106 (10). The enthroning of Pope Calixtus … 270; title: 107 (11). The concord of the princes with the Duke … 272; title: 108 (12). Svantowit, the idol of the Rugiani … 274; title: 109 (13). The changing of the body and blood … 277; title: 110 (14). The reconciliation of the king of the Danes with the Duke … 280; title: ◦; title: Bibliography … 283; title: Index … 299; title: ◦; title: Map of the Helmold region, Page 2