. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:. Little could be done to oppose them,on account of the war with the Hunga-rians, but as soon as that was ended the German king resolved to exact satis-faction. Once more, however, he was desirous of courting success by policyrather than by arms. Mieczyslaw, the son of Duke Boleslaw, was involvedin a war (as has already been stated) with his brother Otto. Now, inConrads unlucky campaign against Mieczyslaw, Otto, who inclined
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:. Little could be done to oppose them,on account of the war with the Hunga-rians, but as soon as that was ended the German king resolved to exact satis-faction. Once more, however, he was desirous of courting success by policyrather than by arms. Mieczyslaw, the son of Duke Boleslaw, was involvedin a war (as has already been stated) with his brother Otto. Now, inConrads unlucky campaign against Mieczyslaw, Otto, who inclined to theside of the Germans, had been driven out of the country. With him [1 As C. T. Lewis« notes: The people took sides in their legends and songs with theunfortunate youth who had fought for his inheritance against a severe stepfather, and com-pared his fate with that of the equally unfortunate Ludolf, son of Otto the Great. Indeed, legendmerged the two stories into one, and thus arose the song of Ernst of Swabia, which was long sungin the Middle Ages and represents the two friends as finally going to the East upon a crusade andmeeting with manifold adventures.]. A German Warrior THE FRANCONIAN DYNASTY 637 [103^-1036 ] Conrad again entered into negotiations, and in consequence Otto (who wasalso favoured by the Russians) appeared once more in the district betweenthe Elbe and the Oder, occupied by Slavonic tribes, who even then werestyled Poles. Conrad sent an army from Saxony to support his protege, andthe civil war began afresh among the Poles. Mieczyslaw was thus broughtto a more yielding temper, and, although Otto was slain soon after, he en-deavoured to establisli a permanent peace with the king of Germany. Apeace was actually brought about, the Polish prince submitting to tribute andto give part of the countrj^ between the Elbe and the Oder to the Germans. During the war and the negotiations with Mieczyslaw (in the year 1032)King Rudolf of Burgundy died. Conrad II had
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