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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 249 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HELMOLD , an historian of the 12th See also:

century, was a See also:priest at Bosau near Plon. He was a friend of the two bishops of See also:Oldenburg, Vicelin (d. 1154) and Gerold (d. 1163), who did much to Christianize the Slays. At See also:Bishop Gerold's instigation Helmold wrote his Chronica Slavorum, a See also:history of the See also:conquest and See also:conversion of the See also:Slavonic countries from the See also:time of See also:Charlemagne. For the See also:life and times of See also:Henry the See also:Lion, See also:duke of See also:Saxony, Helmold's See also:chronicle, as that of a contemporary who had exceptional means for gaining See also:information, is of first-See also:rate importance. The history was continued down to 1209 by See also:Abbot See also:Arnold of See also:Lubeck. The Chronica were first edited by Siegmund Schorkel (See also:Frankfort a. M., 1556). The best edition is by J. M. See also:Lappenberg in Mon.

Germ. hist. scriptores, xxi. (1869). For See also:

critical See also:works on the Chronica see A. See also:Potthast, Bibliotheca hist. med. aevi, s.

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