Hedeby (æt Hæþum)
A trading port at the base of the Jutland peninsula, which Henry Sweet identified with Schleswig. Ohthere sailed there from Sciringes heal, and Wulfstan sailed from there to Truso.
Today: Haithabu, near Schleswig, Germany
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
And of Scīringes hēale hē cwæð ðæt hē seglode on fīf dagan tō þǣm porte þe mǫn hæt/ æt Hæþum; se stęnt betuh Winedum, and Seaxum, and Angle, and hȳrð inn on Dęne.
And from Sciringes heal, he said, he sailed in five days to the port that is called Haethum. It stands between the Wends, the Saxons and the Angles, and belongs to Denmark.
Ðā hē þiderweard seglode fram Scīringeshēale, þā wæs him on þæt bæcbord Dęnamearc and on þæt stēorbord wīdsǽ þrȳ dagas; and þā, twēgen dagas ǣr hē tō Hæþum cōme, him wæs on þæt stēorbord Gotland, and Sillęnde, and īglanda fela.
When he sailed that way from Sciringes heal, he had Denmark on his port side and open sea on his starboard side for three days. And then, two days before he arrived at Haethum, he had, on his starboard side, Gotland and Sillende and many islands.
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.