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Burgenda land (Bornholm)

The Baltic island, “land of the Burgundians,” which Wulfstan passed; it had its own king.

Today: Bornholm, Denmark

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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And þonne Burgenda land wæs ūs on bæcbord, and þā habbað him sylfe cyning.

And then Burgenda land was on our port side, and they have a king of their own.