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Finland. The same spring the men of Novgorod went with Posadnik Fedor to the Neva, and stood before Orekhov, conversing through envoys with the German Voyevoda Sten; and there was no peace; and so the men of Novgorod returned to Novgorod. The Germans warred much with the Korel people around lake Onega, and afterwards, having come up, they set fire to the Posad town at Ladoga but did not take the fort. After that the brave men of Novgorod went with their Voyevodas and ravaged the districts round the Nemetski and Korel towns (Finland) and devastated their country considerably, burning their crops and killing their cattle ; and they returned all well with captives.

• The same year the Germans came from their town Viborg to ravage the [town of] Toldoga, and from there they wished to go to the country of the Vod people, but they took nothing; for Vod had taken precautions. But the men of Koporya issued out with Fedor Vasilevich and beat them; and here they killed Mikhei of Koporya, a good man, and wounded Fedor's horse under him, but he himself suffered no harm ; for they had gone out in a small body.

• And Knyaz Narimont remained in Lithuania; and they sent urgently for him, but he would not come; he even withdrew his son Alexander from Orekhov, leaving only his lieutenant.

• The same winter they sent envoys to Novgorod from the Nemetski town Viborg from Voyevoda Petrik concerning peace, saying: " The Knyaz of the Sweden knows not that a rupture had occurred with Novgorod; but the Voyevoda Sten had done it of his own mind." And the men of Novgorod sent Kusma Tverdislavich and Olexander Borisovich on a mission, and they returned with a peace, having concluded a peace on the terms agreed upon with the Veliki Knyaz Yuri on the Neva; but concerning the Kohylich Korel people country they agreed to ask the Knyaz of the Sweden.

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