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On February 1, on Quinquagesima Sunday, there was thunder after morning service, and all heard it; and then at the same time they saw a flying snake.
Estonia. Novgorodian campaigns against the Chudes. Knyaz Mstislav marched with the men of Novgorod against the Chud people to Ereva (Narva), through the land of the Chud people towards the sea, he ruined their villages and captured their forest fortresses. And he stayed with the men of Novgorod by the town of Vorobino, and the Chud people bowed down to him, and Knyaz Mstislav took tribute from them; and gave two parts of the tribute to the men of Novgorod, and the third part to the courtiers. There were present also Knyaz Vsevolod Borisovits of Pleskov with the men of Pleskov, and Knyaz David of Toropets, Volodimir's brother; and all returned well with a quantity of plunder.
The same year Vsevolod the Red, son of Svyatoslav, great-grandson of Oleg, drove the grandsons of Rostislav out of Russia, saying thus:" You hanged two of my brothers, Knyazes, in Galich" as malefactors and you put shame on all ; and there is no portion for you in the Russian Land."
Mstislav summoned a Veche in Yaroslav's Court, and began to summon the men of Novgorod to go to Kiev against Vsevolod the Red. And Mstislav went to Kiev with the men of
Novgorod in the month of June, the 18th, St. Fedor's Day; and they reached Smolensk and there arose a dispute between the men of Novgorod and the men of Smolensk, and the men of Novgorod killed a man of Smolensk and would not go after their Knyaz.
Having overtaken the Knyaz they began to make war on the towns of Chernigov along the Dnieper; they took Rechitsa by storm and many other towns of Chernigov ; and they came up to Vyshegorod and began to fight. And Mstislav with his brothers and the men of Novgorod prevailed and took two Knyazes: Rostislav Yaroslavits and his brother Yaropolk, grandsons of Oleg.
Leszek I the White's raid on Volodymyr-Volynskyi
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