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Halogaland (Hålogaland)

Ohthere's home district in the north of Norway; he said no one lived north of him.

Today: northern Norway

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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Ohthęre sǣde þæt sīo scīr hātte Hālgoland, þe hē on būde.

Ohthere said that the district was called Halgoland, where he lived.