sciringes

Updated: May 20, 2025

First of all, he has Scotland, called Iraland, evidently by mistake, and the Orkney and Shetland islands, which lie between Scotland and Halgoland, on his right hand; and the continent is continually on his left hand, all the way, until he arrive at Sciringes- heal.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 : Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

To the south of Sciringes- heal a great sea runs up a vast way into the country, and is so wide that no man can see across it. Ohthere further says that he sailed in five days from Sciringes-heal to that port which men call AEt-Haethum, which stands between the Winedae, the Saxons, and the Angles, and is subject to the Danes.

Richard Hakluyt - Discovery of Muscovy