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Drasco
Drasco was a prince of the Obotrites, a West Slavic people of present-day Mecklenburg and eastern Holstein, and an ally of Charlemagne. In 798 he led the Obotrites to victory over the Nordalbingian Saxons near Bornhöved. After the Danish king Gudfred attacked his lands in 808 he had to give hostages to the Danes, and he was murdered in 809.
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