The setting for this series of narratives is the Northern Crusades, a fascinating and particularly brutal period within the generally bloody history of the Crusades. Unlike the well documented and frequently fictionalized crusades in the Mediterranean region, little attention has been paid to the crusades in the Baltic region. They were initiated and strongly supported by the Popes of that period and drew fighting men from all of Europe. The original intent of the crusades was to Christianize the Baltic peoples who at the beginning of the XII-th century were still adamantly pagan. Over time, however, they degenerated into straightforward genocidal campaigns to acquire lands and serfs. Several orders of knightly monks participated in the prolonged war, of these the most prominent was the Teutonic Order of Holy Mary of Jerusalem. The members of this order were drawn from the noble or knightly class and had to be of German birth. They succeeded in completely exterminating the Prussian people, and expropriated not only their land, but also their name. After over 200 years of bitter struggle only the Lithuanians and Samogitians remained unconquered and pagan. They accepted Christianity on their own terms at the beginning of the XV-the century.
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Esta serie de narrativas se adentra en las épicas aventuras de una familia noble lituana del siglo XIII, con el objetivo de forjar una saga heroica que Lituania nunca había poseído. La autenticidad de los relatos se ve realzada por su estrecha conexión con eventos históricos reales de la época. Las historias abarcan tierras lituanas y más allá, incluyendo regiones de la actual Letonia y Rusia, detallando las interacciones entre las tribus lituanas y samogitianas y sus pueblos vecinos. Una figura central en muchas entregas es Uvis, uno de los cinco hijos del Rikių Žybartas y su esposa Medeina.
