We have previously made reference to a Leibniz’ edition of Scriptores Rerum Brunsvicensium, a book that is a compilation of various documents of out of the Duchy of Brunswick. There we discussed the mention in volume I of the same of the Polabian Gods Hammon, Swentebuek, Vitelubbe and Radegast. Well, Hammon, is a questionable one even though mentioned there.
In any event, the same compilation also mentions – in volume II – the Pomeranian three-headed God Tryglav as part of the Fragmentum genealogiae ducum Brunsvicensium et Luneburgensium (that is, the genealogical fragments regarding the dukes of Brunswick and Luneburg). Here, however, he is mentioned as a God worshipped in Brandenburg. We now include that other reference here with a translation, of course.
“Huius temporibus fuit in Brandenburg rex Henricus, qui Slavice dicebatur Pribezlaus, qui Christianus factus, Idolum, quod in Brandenburgh fuit, cum tribus capitibus, quod Tryglav Slavice dicebatur, et pro Deo colebatur, et alia Idola destruxit, et idololatriam et ritum gentis sue detestans, cum filium non haberet, Adelbertum Marchionem, dictum Ursum, haeredem sui instituit principatus.”
“At this time, there was in Brandenburg King Henry, whom the Slavs called Pribislav, who became a Christian and he destroyed the idol that had three heads and was worshipped as a God in Brandenburg and that the Slavs called Tryglav and other idols and idolatries and rites among his peoples that he detested; when he did not have a son, Albert called the Bear inherited [the March of Brandenburg].”
Pribislav was the last Slavic duke of the Hevelian Wends. Henry was likely his baptismal name. Without an heir he gave the Brandenburg area to his son-in-law in 1129. That son-in-law’s father was Albert the Bear who subsequently took over the area after Pribislav/Henry died in 1150.
The same story appears in Tractatus de urbe Brandenburg and in the Brandenburg Chronicle. These mention the three headed god but not his name. Whether it be true that the Saxons too worshipped Tryglav, whether the Polish duke Iaszon/Jaczon/Jacze has anything to do with Jassa and who the Zucham were we leave to the readers.
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