According to the Novgorod First Chronicle, Prince Alexander and all the men of Novgorod drew up their forces by the lake, at Uzmen, by the Raven's Rock; and the Germans and the Estonians rode at them, driving themselves like a wedge through their army.
According to the Livonian Order's Livonian Rhymed Chronicle, written in the late 1340s, The [Russians] had many archers, and the battle began with their bold assault on the king's men [Danes].