Beormas (Permians)
A people of the far north who had settled their land well and told Ohthere many stories; Henry Sweet glossed their name as “Permians.”
A voyage to the north: Ohthere and Wulfstan tell King Alfred
Ohthere’s and Wulfstan’s voyages, from the Old English Orosius, in Henry Sweet’s An Anglo-Saxon Reader (Oxford, 1894) · later ninth century, in King Alfred’s reign
Þā Beormas hæfdon swiþe wel gebúd hira land: ac hīe ne dorston þǣr on cuman.
The Permians had settled their land very well, but [his crew] did not dare to go onto it.
Fela spella him sǣdon þā Beormas ǣgþer ge of hiera āgnum lande ge of þǣm landum þe ymb hīe ūtan wǣron; ac hē nyste hwæt þæs sōþes wæs, for þǣm hē hit self ne geseah.
The Permians told him a great many tales, about their own country as well as the lands near them; but he could not tell how much was true, since he had not seen it himself.
Þā Finnas, him þuhte, ǫnd þā Beormas sprǣcon nēah ān geþēode.
The Finns, it seemed to him, and the Permians spoke almost the same language.