Hello Manly Saints, I would like to ask where you got the information for this episode. Reason being is that every other source I seem to find states that Gottschalk was captured, not through his own will. I'm not doubting your sources,for this story has deeply moved and I wish to write a book on Gottschalk some time in the future. (I'm no professional author yet but I feel the push the write proper catholic stories for young men.)
Unfortunately that's a tricky question to answer - I usually read a bunch of things for each episode, and I don't recall all that I read for this. But I guess you'd want to start with Adam of Bremen's History of the Archbishops of Hamburg. The tradition that Gottschalk didn't get captured on purpose comes from Helmold's Chronicle of the Slavs (there's a 1966 translation by Francis Joseph Tschan that I used, see pages 90-1). Helmold is concerned to show that Gottschalk was already repentant before he was captured, and that he was trying to arrange his own surrender but everyone was so afraid of him that it didn't work. Anyway, good luck with the work on Saint Gottschalk, I think it's great that you're looking into that. There's so much story there, someone should definitely write a book about him.
Hello Manly Saints, I would like to ask where you got the information for this episode. Reason being is that every other source I seem to find states that Gottschalk was captured, not through his own will. I'm not doubting your sources,for this story has deeply moved and I wish to write a book on Gottschalk some time in the future. (I'm no professional author yet but I feel the push the write proper catholic stories for young men.)
Unfortunately that's a tricky question to answer - I usually read a bunch of things for each episode, and I don't recall all that I read for this. But I guess you'd want to start with Adam of Bremen's History of the Archbishops of Hamburg. The tradition that Gottschalk didn't get captured on purpose comes from Helmold's Chronicle of the Slavs (there's a 1966 translation by Francis Joseph Tschan that I used, see pages 90-1). Helmold is concerned to show that Gottschalk was already repentant before he was captured, and that he was trying to arrange his own surrender but everyone was so afraid of him that it didn't work. Anyway, good luck with the work on Saint Gottschalk, I think it's great that you're looking into that. There's so much story there, someone should definitely write a book about him.
Thank you!