In the fourteenth century the Teutonic Knights elect a new Grand Master, Konrad Wallenrod, admired for his piety and valour. But Konrad’s past is not what it seems: as a bard’s songs and a hermit’s tale reveal, he was born a Lithuanian, carried off as a child, and has set out to avenge his people from within the order’s walls.
The great Polish poet’s narrative poem of patriotic deception, here in Maude Ashurst Biggs’s translation. Download the free EPUB.