Many captured Slavs have their hands and feet cut off, their eyes stabbed out, are otherwise mutilated and killed on orders of Emperor Conrad II., as punishment for desecrating an image of Jesus in similar ways.
Nam fertur, ut quodam tempore effigiem ligneam crucifixi domini nostri Iesu Christi scelerato ludibrio habuissent pagani et in eam spuerent atque colaphis caederent; ad extrem um oculos eruebant, manus et pedes truncabant. Haec ulciscens imperator de captis paganis maximam multitudinem pro una effigie Christi simili modo truncavit et varia morte delevit.
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Wipo: Gesta Chuonradi imperatoris. In: W. Trillmich, R. Buchner: Quellen des 9. und 11. Jahrhunderts zur Geschichte der Hamburgischen Kirche und des Reiches (FSGA 11), Darmstadt, 522-613.