A.D. 



c. 890. 

 Swethlajtd. 

 Queeneland. 



Boats carted 

 on mens backs. 



[I. 6.] 

 II O;-, streight. 

 It seemeth to 

 be about 

 Elsenborg. 



The descrip- 

 tion of the sound 

 ofDenmarke. 



Gotland. 



II Vandals. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES j 



I 

 South, lieth Swethland, and against the same towards the : 

 North, lieth Queeneland. The Queenes sometimes pass- 

 ing the mountaines, invade and spoile the Normans : and : 

 on the contrary part, the Normans likewise sometimes \ 

 spoile their countrey. Among the mountaines be many I 

 and great lakes in sundry places of fresh water, into the 1 

 which the Queenes use to carie their boats upon their j 

 backs over land, and thereby invade and spoile the 

 countrey of the Normans. These boats of theirs be very 

 little and very light. 



The voyage of Octher out of his countrey of Hal- i 

 goland into the sound of Denmarke unto a port I 

 called Hetha, v^hich seemeth to be Wismer or I 

 Rostorke. 



OCther sayd that the countrey wherein he dwelled, | 

 was called Halgoland : and affirmed that there was ' 

 no man dwelling towards the North from him. From 

 this countrey towards the South, there is a certeine II port 

 called Scirings hall, whither, he sayth, that a man was not 

 able to saile in a moneths space, if he lay still by night, 

 although he had every day a full winde. And he shall 

 saile all the way along the coast, having on his steereboord, 

 first Jutland and the Islands which lie betwixt this countrey 

 & Jutland, still along the coast of this countrey, till he 

 came to Scirings hall, having it on his larboord. At 

 Scirings hall there entreth into the land a maine gulfe of 

 the Sea, which is so broad, that a man cannot see over it : 

 and on the other side against the same, is Gotland, and 

 then Silland. This sea stretcheth many hundreth miles 

 up into the land. From Scirings hall he sayd that he 

 sailed in 5. dayes to the port which is called Hetha, which 

 lieth betwixt the countries of II Wendels, Saxons, and 

 Angles, whereunto it is subject. And as he sailed thither- 

 ward from Scirings hall, he had upon his steereboord 

 Denmarke, and on his leereboord the maine sea, for the 

 space of 3. dayes : and 2. dayes before, he arrived in 



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