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eaft are the Afdrede, to the fouth is the, mouth of* the Ell^ 

 and fome part of Old Saxony. The North Dene have, to the 

 northward, that fame arm of the Tea ."which is called OJi r to- the 

 eaft is the nation of the Oflj, and Afdrede to the fouth. ■ The 

 Ofti have, to the north of them, ^hat fame arm of the Sea, a*-- 

 well as the Winedae and the, Burgundae, and to the fouth is 

 Haefeldan. The Burgundas have this fame arm of the Sea to the 

 weft, and the Sueon to th,e north; to the eaft are the Ser-- 

 mende, to the north, over the waftes, is Cwenland, to the north- 

 well: are the Scride Finnas v , r and to the weft the North- - 

 men. 



" Ohthere told his Lord (King Alfred) that he lived to the 

 " ; north of all the Northmen. He quoth that he dwelt in that 

 " land to the northward, oppofite the weft Sea ~;; he faid, ' how- • 



ever, that the land of the Northmen is due north from that Sea, 

 " and it is all a wafte, except in a few places, where the Finnas 

 44 for the mofr. part dwell, for hunting in the winter, and in 

 " the fummer for riming in that Sea. He faid, that he was 

 " determined to find out, once on a time, how far this country 

 *' extended due north, or whether any one lived to the north of ' 

 " the waftes before-mentioned. With this intent he proceeded 

 ii due north from this country f 9 leaving all the way the ivq/ie 



p Hakluyt terms the country Scrkk-finnia ; and Richard Johnfon, in 

 his account of Nova Zembla, fays, " That fouth-eaft of the caftle of 

 " Wardhus, are the Scrick-finnes, who are a wild people, who neither 

 " know God nor good order; and thefe people live in tents made of 

 " deer fkins, and they have no certain habitations, but continue in herds 

 " and companies, by one hundred and two hundreds." Hakluyt^, 

 vol. i. p. 283. 



1 pa fop he nop'SniTe be ftzem lanbe, which is not fully tranflated > 

 " atque ea propter fe refla verfus feptentrionem eiTe profeftam." See the 

 Oxford edition, by the fcholars of Univerfity College. 



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