The Medieval Elbe
Slavs and Germans on the Frontier

The Deeds of Wiprecht

Leisnig


As Wiprecht was returning home, he detoured to his town of Leisnig, where his assembled men received him with joy. He made known to them the causes and results of his journey, in sequence, and took counsel with them as to which place under his control seemed to be suitable for constructing a monastery. And although different people offered different opinions about what might be best, nevertheless the more prudent agreed that he ought to look in the neighbourhood of his town of Groitzsch, in whatever place might be most suitable there.

Analysis

This paragraph is frankly puzzling.  It follows the account of Wiprecht's pilgrimage to Rome and Compostela, but there is no reason why his return from that trip should take him first to Leisnig and then to Groitszsch via Eula.  I think the most likely explanation--though little more than conjecture--is that it was added by a compiler seeking to meld those components together and, in the same breath, reinforce Wiprecht's possession of Leisnig at this time, ostensibly 1090.