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Chapters (32)
  1. Epigraph
  2. Prologue
  3. Chapter One
  4. Chapter Two
  5. Chapter Three
  6. Chapter Four
  7. Chapter Five
  8. Chapter Six
  9. Chapter Seven
  10. Chapter Eight
  11. Chapter Nine
  12. Chapter Ten
  13. Chapter Eleven
  14. Chapter Twelve
  15. Chapter Thirteen
  16. Chapter Fourteen
  17. Chapter Fifteen
  18. Chapter Sixteen
  19. Chapter Seventeen
  20. Chapter Eighteen
  21. Chapter Nineteen
  22. Chapter Twenty
  23. Chapter Twenty-One
  24. Chapter Twenty-Two
  25. Chapter Twenty-Three
  26. Chapter Twenty-Four
  27. Discover More
  28. extras
  29. meet the author
  30. if you enjoyed
  31. PART ONE
  32. By Andrzej Sapkowski

“An inexplicable kind of wisdom. Actually, it’s the second time that the Holy Roman Emperor manifests a like wisdom. In 1420, by issuing the Wrocław sentence he infuriated Witold, owing to which we now have Korybut and his Polish regiment in Bohemia. Now, for a change, Sigismund is infuriating Jagiełło, offering Witold the crown and wresting Lithuania from Poland. The infuriated Jagiełło is on the point of abandoning all plans for a crusade to Bohemia and is liable to forge an alliance with the Hussites! Is that what you call political wisdom, Honourable Bishop? The forging of an alliance of Poland with Bohemia? Do you—you and your King Sigismund—want to have an army against you, in which the victors of the Battle of Grunwald will fight alongside the victors of the Battles of Ústí and Tachov? Last spring, Prokop stood outside Wrocław’s walls. Owing to the policies of King Sigismund, an allied Czech–Polish army might arrive here next spring. And before you know it, communion sub utraque specie will be given in your cathedral. With the liturgy in Polish.”