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In some places, the moors are so extensive that a man can hardly travel across them in a fortnight, and in other places perhaps in six days. Opposite to the south part of this country is Sueoland , or Sweden, on the other side of the moors, and opposite to its northern part is Cwenland.
The alteration in the text removes the ambiguity E. Cwenland and the Cwenas appear to refer to Lapmark, and its inhabitants, the Finlanders. Forst. See Sect. iii. p. 12, in which this place is supposed by Mr J. R. Forster to have been where Stockholm now is. Iraland obviously here means Scotland, with the Faro, Shetland, and Orkney islands. This is plainly the isle of Gothland.
To the east are the Sermende, to the south the Surfe . The Sweons have to the south the arm of the sea called Ost, and to the north, over the wastes, is Cwenland , to the north-west are the Scride-finnas , and the North-men are to the west . We shall now speak of Greca-land or Greece, which lies south of the Danube.
The Sweons have to the south of them the same arm of the sea, called Ost Sea; to the east of them the Sarmatians; and to the north, over the wastes, is Cwenland; to the west-north of them are the Scride- Finnas, and to the west the Northmen. "Ohthere told his lord, King Alfred, that he lived to the north of all the Northmen.
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