Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungarica, Vol. 36 (1982)
The Mongols at Liegnitz display the head of King Henry II of the Duchy of Silesia.
Excerpt: The chronicles of the Baltic region contain only few and scattered references to the Mongol invasion, since it did not directly touch any of the coastal countries. It seems that news received from abroad, even a longer time after the event in question had taken place, were sometimes written down under an earlier year, now and then even even under a wrong year. So e.g. the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia tells in 1221 that the Prince of Novgorod had been in the battle on the Kalka, but places the battle itself in 1222, which again seems erroneous, since that battle, according to the Novgorod Annals was found on May 31st, 1224, and according to the Voznesensk Annals on June 16th, 1224.
Henry of Livonia tells about the Mongols: “…In the same year the Tatars (who are said to be Parthians, ad who do not eat bread, but feed on the raw flesh of their flocks) were in the land of the Valvus pagans. The Tartars warred upon them and defeated them and slew them all with the edge of the sword, and others fled to Russians seeking aid from them. Word went out through all of Russia that they should fight with the Tatars, and the kings of all Russia went out against the Tatars. The Russians were not strong enough to fight with them and fled before them…”
Swells of the Mongol Storm around the Baltic
By Pentti Aalton
Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungarica, Vol. 36 (1982)
Excerpt: The chronicles of the Baltic region contain only few and scattered references to the Mongol invasion, since it did not directly touch any of the coastal countries. It seems that news received from abroad, even a longer time after the event in question had taken place, were sometimes written down under an earlier year, now and then even even under a wrong year. So e.g. the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia tells in 1221 that the Prince of Novgorod had been in the battle on the Kalka, but places the battle itself in 1222, which again seems erroneous, since that battle, according to the Novgorod Annals was found on May 31st, 1224, and according to the Voznesensk Annals on June 16th, 1224.
Henry of Livonia tells about the Mongols: “…In the same year the Tatars (who are said to be Parthians, ad who do not eat bread, but feed on the raw flesh of their flocks) were in the land of the Valvus pagans. The Tartars warred upon them and defeated them and slew them all with the edge of the sword, and others fled to Russians seeking aid from them. Word went out through all of Russia that they should fight with the Tatars, and the kings of all Russia went out against the Tatars. The Russians were not strong enough to fight with them and fled before them…”
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