Non enim habent regem iidem Antiqui Saxones, sed satrapas plurimos suae genti praepositos, qui ingruente belli articulo mittunt aequaliter sortes, et quemcumque sors ostenderit, hunc tempore belli ducem omnes sequuntur, huic obtemperant; peracto autem bello, rursum aequalis potentiae omnes fiunt satrapae.
For the said Old Saxons have no king, but many aldermen set over their country, who, as often as there is occasion of war toward, do cast lots equally, and upon whomsoever the lot shall fall, him they all follow as their captain, as long as the war endures, and him they obey; but when the war is done, all the aldermen are equal in power again.
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