Estland
The land of the Ests, east of the mouth of the Vistula, with many towns, each with its king. They are not the people of modern Estonia.
Today: east of the Vistula, on the Baltic coast of Poland and Russia
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
W9
Þæt Estland is swȳðe mycel, and þǣr bið swȳðe manig burh, and on ælcere byrig bið cyningc.
Estland is very large, and there are very many towns there, and in each town there is a king.