A chronicler wrote: "Night and day, in towns and in villages, on the roads and in the streets, the wails of the hungry were such that even the rocks had to have been screaming."
Kroonik kirjutas: „Päeval ja öösel kuuldus nii linnades kui ka külades, teedel ja tänavatel häda- ja näljakannatajate sellist kaeblemist, et kivigi oleks pidanud kisendama."