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Estonia - Russians invaded from Novgorod to Tartu and Otepää. Knyaz Yaroslav with the men of Novgorod and with the whole district, and with his own forces, went against the Germans towards Yurev (Tartu), and the Knyaz halted before he had reached the town with his forces, and he let his people ravage the land. But the Germans issued out of the town, some staying to guard Medvezhya Golova (Otepää), and fought with them right up to the main force. And God helped Knyaz Yaroslav with the men of Novgorod ; and they drove them down to the river, and several of the best Germans fell there; and when the Germans were crossing the river Omovyzh (Emajõgi) they broke through and many were drowned; and some of the wounded escaped to Yurev (Tartu), others to Medvezhya Golova (Otepää). And they laid much of their land waste, and destroyed many of their crops about Yurev (Tartu) and Medvezhya Golova (Otepää). And the Germans did obeisance to the Knyaz, and Yaroslav took peace with them on his own terms, and the men of Novgorod returned all well, but some men of the Low country- fell.
The same year the Lithuanians drove the men of Russa nearly as far as the market place and the men of Russa halted ; and [there was] an ambuscade; and the citizens and body-guard and some of the merchants and traders drove them out of the Posad town again, fighting in the field, and here they killed several of the Lithuanians, and four of the men of Russa: the priest Petrila, Paul Obradits, and two other men. And they pillaged the whole monastery of St. Saviour, and the whole church they stripped, the images and the altar, and four monks they killed, and retired to Klin. Then the news came to Novgorod to Knyaz Yaroslav, and the Knyaz with the men of Novgorod taking to the boats, and others on horse-back, went after them up the Lovot. And when they came to the village of Moravin the boatmen turned back thence to the town; and the Knyaz let them go because they had not enough bread, and he himself with the mounted men went after them and overtook them at Dubrovna, a village in the Toropets district, and there he fought with the accursed and godless [Lithuanians]. And there God [helped them] and the Holy Cross and the Holy Sophia, the Mighty Wisdom of God, helped Knyaz Yaroslav and the men of Novgorod over the pagans, and they took from them 300 of their horses with their goods and they fled into the woods, having thrown down their arms and shields and lances and everything from themselves; and others fell here dead. And of the men of Novgorod they killed there ten men : Feda Yakunovich the Tysyatski, Gavrilo the shieldmaker, Negutin from Lubyanitsa, Nezhila the silversmith, Gostilets of Kusma-Demyan Street, Fedor Uma of the Knyaz's household, a townsman, and three other men. And may God grant peace to their souls in the kingdom of Heaven, who spilt their blood for St. Sophia and for Christian blood.
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