This was a cruel year. An osminka of rye cost a grivna, bread cost two nogatas, and honey ten kunas a pood. The people ate lime leaves and birchbark; they ground wood pulp and mixed it with husks and straw; and some ate buttercups, moss, and horseflesh.
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