…Brandenburg.

According the German chronicler Bishop Thietmar of Merseburg, the decades-long forced Germanization and Christianization of the Slavs associated with these two churches was the reason for their destruction.

Thietmar blames the uprising on maltreatment of the Slavs by the Germans: "Warriors, who used to be our servants, now free as a consequence of our injustices."

In the Obotrite territories along the Elbe River, the Luticians initiate a revolt aiming at the abolishment of feudal rule and Christianity, drawing on considerable support by the Obodrite populace and their leader Mstivoj.

In part, the Obrodite revolt is successful: the princely family, though in part remaining Christian, dissolves Christian institutions.