[61] This is the same nation with the Finnas or Laplanders, mentioned in
the voyage of Ohthere, so named because using scriden,
schreiten, or snowshoes. The Finnas or Laplanders were distinguished
by the geographer of Ravenna into Scerde-fenos, and Rede-fenos, the
Scride-finnas, and Ter-finnas of Alfred. So late as 1556, Richard
Johnson, Hakluyt, ed. 1809. I. 316. mentions the Scrick-finnes as a
wild people near Wardhus. - E.
[62] The North-men or Normans, are the Norwegians or inhabitants of
Nor-land, Nord-land, or North-mana-land. - E.
[63] At this place Alfred introduces the voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan,
already given separately, in Sect. ii. and iii, of this chapter. - E.
[64] Either the original or the translation is here erroneous; it ought to
run thus: "The Propontis is westward of Constantinople; to the
north-east of that city, the arm of the sea issues from the Euxine,
and flows south-west; to the north the mouths of the
Danube empty themselves into the north-west parts of the
Euxine." - E.
[65] Carinthia. The desert has been formerly mentioned as occasioned by the
almost utter extirpation of the Avari by Charlemain, and was
afterwards occupied by the Madschiari or Magiars, the ancestors of the
present Hungarians. - Forst.
[66] Very considerable freedoms have been taken with this sentence; as in
Barrington's translation it is quite unintelligible. - E.
[67] Profent and Profent sea, from the Provincia Gallica, now Provence.
- Forst.
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[60] Already explained to be Finland on the White sea. - E.
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