…their active trading port of Reric/Veligrad (modern Mecklenburg).

Under the reign of their western duke Gottschalk, the Obrodites control the area east of Saxony and west of the Lutici.

The Slavic groups inhabiting the lands between the Elbe and Oder Rivers are often described by Germanic sources as Wends.

The Veletians had in the late tenth century been continued in part by the Lutici.

By the mid-eleventh century, the Lutici have successfully united several local Slavic peoples and now dominate the area north of Lusatia to the Black Sea.