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The Veliki Knyaz Andrei came with th forces of the Low Country and went with the men of Novgorod to that town, and came up to the town on May 18, the Day of St. Patriki, on the Friday before the Descent of the Holy Ghost, and they strove mightily. By the power of St. Sophia and by the help of the martyrs Boris and Gleb, that fortress came to nothing, for their pride, because their labours were in vain, without God's command. The town was taken ; some they beat to death and slew, and having bound others they led them out of the town, and they fired the town and sacked it.

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