The crusaders then returned (v. 441), and hastened towards Memel (“und eylten zu der Mymmel,”), making their way through a trackless country, and experiencing many discomforts on account of the bad weather. They passed through, v. 473, etc.—
“Ein Wildung heist der grauden,
Gen westen noch gen sauden
So poz gevert ich nye gerayt,
Daz sprich ich wol auf meyn ayt,” etc.
They then reached Königsberg, of which it is said, v. 483—
“Tzu Chunigezperch so waz uns gach
Do het wir rue und gut gemach.”
The three districts here introduced, Russein, Aragel, and Grauden, Primisser explains by White Russia, Carelia, and Graudenz. These districts, however, are so far distant from Insterburg, the point from which the army of the Orders started, and so remote from each other, that this supposition is exceedingly improbable. The following explanation would appear to be more natural, whereby the accuracy and truthfulness of Suchenwirt, in his names of districts, places, and rivers, are more clearly established. The army of the Orders proceeded from Insterburg into Samogitia, penetrated on the third day into Russenia, i.e., Black Russia, the district of Novogrodek in the modern government of Grodno, on the Upper Niemen, laid waste a portion of this province and of Aragel, pushed on to Memel, and then retreated through the waste of Graudenz into the country of the Orders; when Suchenwirt, in consequence of fatigue, stayed behind
