Ohthere
A Norseman from Halogaland in the far north of Norway who came to King Alfred's court in the later ninth century and told the king about his land, his wealth and his voyage north.
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
O01
Ohthęre sǣde his hlāforde, Ælfrede cyninge, þæt hē ealra Norðmǫnna norþmest būde.
Ohthere told his lord, King Alfred, that he lived farther north than any other Norseman.
O35
Ohthęre sǣde þæt sīo scīr hātte Hālgoland, þe hē on būde.
Ohthere said that the district was called Halgoland, where he lived.