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There came Svei (Sweden) and the Yem and Sum (Finnish) people, and Didman with his province, and a quantity of armed men, and they began to make a town on the Narova (Narva). And the Knyaz was not then in Novgorod, and the men of Novgorod sent to the Low Country to the Knyaz for armed men, and themselves sent throughout their province, thus gathering armed men. And they, accursed ones, having heard, fled beyond the sea.
Knyaz Olexander arrived in the winter of the same year, and the Metropolitan with him; and the Knyaz took the road together with the Metropolitan, and the men of Novgorod did not know where he was going, some thought that he was going against the Chud people (Estonians). And having reached Koporya, Olexander went against the Yem people (Finnish); but the Metropolitan returned to Novgorod, and many other men of Novgorod turned back from Koporya. And the Knyaz went with his own force and with the men of Novgorod. And the road was bad, so that they saw neither day nor night, and it was perdition to many of those on foot, but God spared the men of Novgorod. And he came to the Yem land ; some they killed, and others they captured. And the men of Novgorod with Knyaz Olexander returned all well.
Danylo succeeded in driving the Mongols out of Volhynia
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