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f< wind ; during this voyage he would fail near land, on his 

 " right hand would be Iraland, and then the ifiands which are 

 " between Iraland sad this land. This country continues quite 

 " to Sciringes heal, and all the way on the left, as ydu proceed 

 *' northward to the fbuth of Sciringes heal, a great fea makes 

 " a vaft bay, and is fo wide, that no one can fee acrofs 

 " it. Gotland is oppofite on the other fide, and afterwards 

 " the Sea of Sillende lies many miles up in that country* 

 " Ohthere further fays, that he failed in five days from Sciringes 

 tC heal, to that port which men call ^t-Hsethum, which is be* 

 " tween the Winedum, Seaxum, and Angle, and makes part of 

 " Dene. 



*' When Ohthere failed to this place from Sciringes heal, Den- 

 " mark was on his left, and on the right a wide fea for three 

 " days, as alfo two days before he came to Haethum, Gotland, 

 " Sillende, and many ifiands [thefe lands were inhabited by the 

 iC Angle before they came hither n j ; for two days the ifiands 

 *' which belong to Dene were on the left." 



" Wulfflan faid, that he went from Heathum to Trufo irt 

 " feven days and nights (the (hip being under fail all the time) 

 *' that Weonothland was on his right, but Langoland, Laeland, 



therefore, but think that it mould be paco&e, and the meaning would 

 then be, that this port was diftant a months fail, if the vefFel continued 

 it's courfe both by day and night. As for this port called Scininjef- 

 beal in order to find out what place is hereby intended, we fliould fup- 

 pofe it to be pronounced Shiringes-hezi, fox fc^ followed by the vowels 

 i and e (and fometimes by others) feems always to have been pro- 

 nounced by the Saxons, as it is by the Italians in the word Sciolto pro- 

 nounced Sbiolto. Thus we pronounce rap Jhip, reiell Jhell, rcilt> JJricld, 

 ycina Jhin, rape JJoire, pycar J/Jh, &c. 



n This clears up mofl decifively the doubts in Camden's preface, 

 p. clviii. with regard to the fituation of the Angles. 



O o o « Falfter, 



