1215
Estonians raid to Pskov. Sakala King Lembitu conquered and looted Pskov
Knyaz Mstislav went to Kiev of his own free will, and made a Veche in Yaroslav's Court, and said to the men of Novgorod: " I have arms [to work my will] in Russia, and you are free to choose your Knyaz."
The same year Knyaz Yaroslav seized Yakun Zubolomits and sent for Foma Dobroshchinits Posadnik of Novitorg; and having put him in chains imprisoned him in Tver.
And Knyaz Yaroslav made a Veche in Yaroslav's Court ; they went to Yakun's Court and plundered it and seized his wife. And Yakun went the next morning to the Knyaz with the Posadnik, and the Knyaz ordered to be seized his son Khristofor on May 21. And then the Prussians killed Ovostrat on a festival day, also his son Lugota, and threw them dead into a pit.
Famine in Novgorod. And in Novgorod it was very bad, people ate pine bark and lime tree leaves and moss. O brothers, then was the trouble; they gave their children into slavery. They dug a public grave and filled it full. O, there was trouble! corpses in the market-place; corpses in the street, corpses in the fields; the dogs could not eat up the men! The Vod people all died; the rest were scattered.
Yaroslav erected a stockade and blockaded the road from Novgorod and the river Tvertsa; and he sent 100 of the men of Novgorod to Novgorod to conduct Mstislav out of Novgorod
Knyaz Yaroslav let go the priest without peace, and summoned the men of Novgorod to a field outside Torzhok on Saturday before Sexagesima, and having seized all the men and merchants and put them in chains sent them to his various towns, and distributed their merchandise and horses ; and there were of all the men of Novgorod over 2,000.
1215-1223 Estonia. Russian and Germans in war for the Estonian land
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