Ohthere and Wulfstan

• Main Author: Appleton, Helen
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2017
• Subjects: White Sea; Norway; Hålogaland; Northern Norway
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118396957.wbemlb288; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2F9781118396957.wbemlb288; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781118396957.wbemlb288

Ohthere and Wulfstan is an Old English prose text preserved in the geographical section of the Old English Orosius . Ohthere and Wulfstan consists of travel narratives recording journeys undertaken in northern Europe by two seafarers, Ohthere and Wulfstan, as related to Alfred the Great, the Anglo‐Saxon king of Wessex. Ohthere gives an account of voyages from his home in Hålogaland in northern Norway to the White Sea, and from Hålogaland to the port of Hedeby in southern Jutland. Wulfstan describes sailing from Hedeby to the Baltic. The accounts record the routes taken and the customs of the peoples encountered.