The Medieval Elbe
Slavs and Germans on the Frontier

The Deeds of Wiprecht

Before God


When everything had at last been set up around him according to his desire, Wiprecht, so as not to misuse the tranquillity of the time granted to him by God, now pondered how he might become fortunate before God. It was as if he heard the very author of his salvation threatening him, 'Transgressors, take it again to heart!'

Analysis

This intervention must postdate the one about Wiprecht's good fortune, to which it responds without seeming to arise from the same pen.  It sets up the narrative shift from Wiprecht's rise to Pegau's foundation.