Wulfstan (traveler)
A traveler whose account of a seven-day voyage from Hedeby to Truso on the Baltic was added, with Ohthere's, to King Alfred's Old English Orosius.
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
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Wulfstān sǣde þæt hē gefóre of Hæðum, þæt hē wǣre on Trūsō on syfan dagum and nihtum, þæt þæt scip wæs ealne weg yrnende under segle.
Wulfstan said that he set out from Haethum and that he was at Truso within seven days and nights, and that the ship ran under sail the whole way.