Rex igitur in locis australibus ultra fluuium, qui Lima dicitur, regalibus negociis ex more peractis ad regionem maritimam, quę Wendel lingua Danica nomen habet, quod 'conuertibilis' interpretatur, aduehitur; ibique in uilla regia, quę a domina quondam loci ipsius Burhlina iam mutata uocali Burhlanis nuncupatur, cum regio satellite spaciaturus residere decreuit, regiis exactoribus de peragendis simul et inquirendis negociis demandans.

Cuius aduentu tam nobiles quam et uulgus incitati impiorum consiliorum conuenticula aggregant et ad inuicem animos ad iniquitatem instigant, pudori deputantes regiis institutis cedere et sese inferiores quam regiam potestatem existimare. Idcirco, dum potestati insidiantur, deo aduersantur, quia iuxta ueridicum apostolum, qui potestati resistit, dei ordinationi obsistit. Ac per hoc in eius deputantur consorcio, qui, dum deo subditus esse contempsit, in profundissima inferni de excelsissimis celorum deiectus cecidit sedibus.

After completing his customary royal business in the southern regions beyond the waters called the Limfjord, the king traveled to the coastal district known in the Danish tongue as Vendsyssel, a name interpreted as “the changeable land.” There he decided to reside for a time at a royal estate called Børglum, named after a former lady of that place, though now with its vowel altered, together with his royal retinue, while he entrusted the king’s officials with carrying out and investigating the necessary affairs.

At the news of his arrival, both nobles and common people were stirred up. They gathered in assemblies of impious counsel and urged one another toward wrongdoing, considering it shameful to submit to royal ordinances or to regard themselves as inferior to royal authority. Thus, while they plotted against lawful power, they opposed God himself; for, as the Apostle truthfully teaches, whoever resists authority resists the ordinance of God. By this they were counted among the company of him who, because he refused to be subject to God, was cast down from the highest seats of heaven into the deepest abyss of hell.