[62] The North-men or Normans, are the Norwegians or inhabitants of
Nor-land, Nord-land, or North-mana-land. - E.
[63] At this place Alfred introduces the voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan,
already given separately, in Sect. ii. and iii, of this chapter. - E.
[64] Either the original or the translation is here erroneous; it ought to
run thus: "The Propontis is westward of Constantinople; to the
north-east of that city, the arm of the sea issues from the Euxine,
and flows south-west; to the north the mouths of the
Danube empty themselves into the north-west parts of the
Euxine." - E.
[65] Carinthia. The desert has been formerly mentioned as occasioned by the
almost utter extirpation of the Avari by Charlemain, and was
afterwards occupied by the Madschiari or Magiars, the ancestors of the
present Hungarians. - Forst.
[66] Very considerable freedoms have been taken with this sentence; as in
Barrington's translation it is quite unintelligible. - E.
[67] Profent and Profent sea, from the Provincia Gallica, now Provence.
- Forst.
[68] Probably in relation to Rome, the residence of Orosius. - E.
[69] Gascony, called Wascan in the Teutonic or Saxon orthography and
pronunciation. Thus the Saxons changed Gauls to Wales, and the Gauls
changed War-men into Guer-men, hence our modern English, Germans.
- Forst.
[70] Scotland is here assuredly used to denote Ireland. - E.
[71] Probably in relation to Rome, the residence of Orosius. - E.
[72] Alfred includes the whole island, now called Great Britain, under one
denomination of Brittannia, taking no notice whatever of any of its
divisions. Orcadus is unquestionably Orcades, or the islands of Orkney
and Shetland. - E.
[73] The Thila or Thule of Alfred, from its direction in respect of
Ireland, and its great distance, is obviously Iceland. - E.
[74] This seems to have some obscure reference to an idea, that the sea had
disjoined Europe and Africa. But the sense is extremely perplexed and
even unintelligible. - E.
[75] It must be noticed, that Alfred was unacquainted with any more of
Africa than its northern coast, along the Mediterranean, which
explains this erroneous idea of its size being inferior to Europe. - E.
[76] Syrenaica. - E.
[77] The Red Sea, or Ethiopic Gulf. In this part of the geography of
Alfred, his translator has left the sense often obscure or
contradictory, especially in the directions, which, in this version,
have been attempted to be corrected. This may have been owing to
errors in the Anglo-Saxon MS. which Barrington professes to have
translated literally, and he disclaims any responsibility for the
errors of his author. - E.
[78] Probably some corruption of Syrtes Majores, or of Syrenaica. - E.
[79] Tripolitana, now Tripoli. - E.
[80] I can make nothing of this salt lake of the Arzuges, unless it be the
lake of Lawdeah, between Tunis and Tripoli. The Getulians and
Garamantes are well known ancient inhabitants of the interior of
northern Africa; the Natabres are unknown.
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- Mentions the Scrick-finnes as a
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