rupol2000
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Finally, I understand where these fairy tales came from.
The Vikings are Vitings (compare with the names Wittginstein and Witte), they lived in Prussia, during the reign of the Teutonic Knights. The Teutons themselves apparently were not Prussians, they were conquerors who converted the Prussian pagans to Christianity (hence the story about the "baptism of Russia").
The word meant "petty official"
Here is a translation from a Russian source, check it with your sources, it looks authentic.
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The word "witing" meant in the order's lexicon a Prussian servant in the sense of a subordinate, lower official. As the German author Ernst Kutovsky emphasized on pages 407-522 of his work “On the history of mercenaries in the troops of the Teutonic Order in Prussia up to the First Thorn (Torun) Peace” // Oberland Historical Notes, Volume III, Issues XI-XV, Koenigsberg 1909- 1913, pp. 407-522 (Ernst Kutowski. Zur Geschichte der Soeldner in den Heeren des Deutschordens in Preussen bis zum Ersten Thorner Frieden // Oberlaendische Geschichtsblaetter Bd III Heft XI-XV, Koenigsberg 1909-1913, S. 407-522), these Diner Prussians, who represented a privileged class, themselves had servants (knechts). In order houses, they ate at a special "table for Vitings" (vitingtish), or "table for servants" (dinertish). The "Vitings" were used as overseers, often involving them in guard duty. "Viting", who served in the order house for a year, received from the order, in addition to housing and food, a salary of three marks and shoes.
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ru source
The Vikings are Vitings (compare with the names Wittginstein and Witte), they lived in Prussia, during the reign of the Teutonic Knights. The Teutons themselves apparently were not Prussians, they were conquerors who converted the Prussian pagans to Christianity (hence the story about the "baptism of Russia").
The word meant "petty official"
Here is a translation from a Russian source, check it with your sources, it looks authentic.
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The word "witing" meant in the order's lexicon a Prussian servant in the sense of a subordinate, lower official. As the German author Ernst Kutovsky emphasized on pages 407-522 of his work “On the history of mercenaries in the troops of the Teutonic Order in Prussia up to the First Thorn (Torun) Peace” // Oberland Historical Notes, Volume III, Issues XI-XV, Koenigsberg 1909- 1913, pp. 407-522 (Ernst Kutowski. Zur Geschichte der Soeldner in den Heeren des Deutschordens in Preussen bis zum Ersten Thorner Frieden // Oberlaendische Geschichtsblaetter Bd III Heft XI-XV, Koenigsberg 1909-1913, S. 407-522), these Diner Prussians, who represented a privileged class, themselves had servants (knechts). In order houses, they ate at a special "table for Vitings" (vitingtish), or "table for servants" (dinertish). The "Vitings" were used as overseers, often involving them in guard duty. "Viting", who served in the order house for a year, received from the order, in addition to housing and food, a salary of three marks and shoes.
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ru source
