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the peopled and settled land of the Beormas or
Perms.
Oht-here makes it a month’s sail, stopping every
night, from his home to Sciringshall, and six days thence
to Heath-by. His account of his own wealth is noteworthy;
he had 600 rein-deer he had bred or caught,
"unbought," as he says, 6 stale or decoy deer, 20 head
of neat and the same number of sheep and swine.
He has horses, too, which he uses for ploughing, a
rare thing in those days, but how many, he or King
Ælfred forgets to tell us.
A border warfare, probably chiefly carried on by
the outlying Northern settlers, Neams, Throwends,
and Haloga-landers, against the Cwæns, a tribe of
Finnish affinities, is also spoken of by Oht-here.
He says the Cwæns used to bring their light boats
up on to the inland lakes of the Scandinavian
peninsula.
And voyages like Oht-here’s were not singular cases.
The Story of Kings Heor and Half, found in Are’s
Landnáma-bóc as well as appended to the later Half’s-Saga
and Sturlunga-Saga, tells how a king of the
Rugians and Haurds went warring on the land of the
Beormas or Perms, and wedded the Beorm king’s
daughter, Lufina. We also hear of a Tryst of
Kings, held apparently at regular intervals somewhere
in the south of the Scandinavian land, probably
by the Gota-river mouth, a very ancient meeting
place.
Such trading journeys and forays, identical in object–gain,
like our adventures in the days of Elizabeth–
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