Sciringes heal (Skíringssalr)
The port in the south of Norway that Ohthere sailed to. Excavators identify it with the Viking-age town of Kaupang, founded about 800, which Ohthere visited about 890.
Today: Kaupang, near Larvik, Vestfold, 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
Þonne is án port on sūðeweardum þǣm lande, þone man hæt/ Scīringes hēal.
There is a port in the southern part of that land, which is called Sciringes heal.
Þonne is þis land, oð hē cymð tō Scīrincges hēale, and ealne weg on þæt bæcbord Norðweg.
Then there is this land, until he reaches Sciringes heal, and the whole way, on the port side, is Norway.
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.