Hē sǣde ðæt Norðmanna land wǣre swӯðe lang and swӯðe smǣl.
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He said that the Northmen's lands were very long and very narrow.
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Eal ðæt his man āðer oððe ettan oððe erian mæg,
ðæt līð wið ðā sǣ;
and ðæt is ðēah on sumum stōwum swӯðe cludig;
and licgað wilde mōras wið ēastan and wið ūpp on emnlange ðǣm bӯnum landum.
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All of it that one might graze or cultivate, that (portion) lies towards the sea; and it is however very rocky in some places; and wild moors lie towards the east and up along towards the cultivated land.
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On ðǣm mōrum eardiað Finnas.
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Fins live on the moors.
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And ðæt bӯne land is ēastweard brādost,
and symle swā norðor swā smælre.
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And the cultivated land is broadest eastwards, and always the further north the narrower.
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Ēastweard hit mæg bēon syxtig mīla brād,
oððe hwēne brǣdre;
and middeweard ðrītig oððe brādre;
and norðeweard hē cwæð ðǣr hit smalost wǣre,
ðæt hit mæg bēon ðrēora mīla brād to ðǣm mōre;
and sē mōr siððan,
on summe stōwum,
swā brād swā man mæg on twām wucum oferfēran;
and on sumum stōwum swā brād swā man mæg on sӯx dagum oferfēran.
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The eastern part of it might be sixty miles wide, or somewhat wider; and the middle part thirty (miles) or wider; and the northern part, he said, where it was narrowest; so that it might be three miles wide to the moor, and then the moor (is) in some places, as wide as one might traverse in two weeks; and in some places (is) as wide as one might traverse in six days.
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