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1423-00-00-Korela land and Novgorod

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last edited 19. 12. 2025 by EpiMedDat-Bot.

Plague in the Korel land and Novgorod (probably another wave of the Black Death = smallpox)

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[6932] И моръ бысть в Корѣльскои землѣ. Того же лѣта моръ бысть в Новѣгородѣ железою и хракъ кровию[1]

Text translationEnglish translation of the text

[6932] There was a plague in the Korel Land. The same year there was aplague with swelling/blister/cerebral oedema[2] and with spitting of blood in Novgorod[3]

  1. Новгородская первая летопись младшего изводa (Комиссионный список), in: Полное Cобрание Pусских Летописей, т. III, Mocвa: Языки Pyccкoй Kyльтypы, 2000, p. 414.
  2. The English translator used the word: „glands” to describe the symptoms of the disease. I think it is better to specify the dates: swelling/blister/cerebral oedema.
  3. The Chronicle of Novgorod 1016-1471 translated from the Russian by Robert Michell and Nevill Forbes […] with an Introduction by C. Raymond Beazley. London: Gray’s inn., W.C., 1914 (= Camden Third Series, Vol. XXV), p. 191.

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