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Truso

A trading place on the Baltic near the mouth of the Vistula, where Wulfstan's voyage ended. Henry Sweet gives its later name as Drausen.

Today: near Elbląg and Lake Drużno, Poland

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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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.