Artykuł Theodora Westrina o oblężeniu Jasnej Góry przez wojska Karola X Gustawa w 1655 roku, opublikowany w Szwecji w 1904 roku: Filip Mazurkiewicz, wstęp
Theodor Westrin’s Article on the 1655 Siege of Jasna Góra Monastery by the Army of Charles X Gustav Published in Sweden in 1904: Filip Mazurkiewicz, Introduction

Theodor Westrin, On the 1655 Siege of Jasna Góra Monastery by the Army of Charles X Gustav

Summary/Abstract: Theodor Westrin’s study was published in 1904 and is presumably an answer to Henryk Sienkiewicz’s growing international fame crowned by the Nobel Prize the writer was awarded with in 1905. Westrin gives a survey of Swedish historical sources referring to the siege of Jasna Góra Monastery, and then compares them with the Polish accounts on the subject, primarily with Abbot Augustyn Kordecki’s “Nowa Gigantomachia” (“New Gigantomachia”). Thus the reader finds here many protagonists well known from Sienkiewicz’s “Potop” (“Deluge”); apart from Kordecki, also General Buchard Müller, Count Jan Weyhard Wrzeszczowicz, Marshall Arvid Wittenberg, and ultimately the kings—the Polish and the Swedish. One of the main myths of Polish history debugs here, while many elements of the accounts of the siege to which we got accustomed or which we regard as trustworthy became half- or untrue.

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