Names of Places

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Names of Places

Abakie⁠—an imaginary Eastern land, subject to Siegfried.

Abalie⁠—an Eastern land, noted for gems and cloths.

Alzabie⁠—a fabulous Moorland city, the residence of Siegfried.

Amilé⁠—an imaginary Eastern land, the home of mermaids.

Araby⁠—a land whence came fine clothes and treasures.

Ballian⁠—Ballyghan, Hagen’s chief city in Ireland.

Daneland⁠—not the present Denmark, but, in the ninth century, the seat of the Danes in Friesland, near the mouth of the Scheldt.

Dietmarsch⁠—a province subject to Hettel.

Friesland⁠—subject to Hettel, and held in fief by Morunc and Irold.

Galeis⁠—a land whose people are friendly to Herwic.

Galicia⁠—Portugal, the home of Hildeburg.

Garadie⁠—an indeterminate country, near Ireland.

Givers⁠—a fabulous land, subject to Horant.

Gulstred⁠—a place in the West.

Hegeling⁠—the name of a people on the North Sea, in Holland, governed by Hettel.

Holstein⁠—variously mentioned as subject to Fru-te, to Irolt, and to Ortwin.

Icaria⁠—a fabulous land whose people are allies of Siegfried of Moorland.

Ireland⁠—The situation seems sometimes to correspond with the modern Ireland, and sometimes to a part of Holland. There is a place in Texel, at the present day, named Eijerland.

Iserland⁠—the home of one of Gudrun’s maiden companions.

Kampalia⁠—a fabulous land noted for rich clothing.

Kampatille⁠—Hettel’s castle, also called Matelan.

Karadie⁠—a land belonging to Siegfried of Moorland.

Kassian⁠—the chief city and castle of Normandy.

Matelan⁠—see Kampatille.

Moorland⁠—the kingdom of Siegfried; owing to the love of the marvelous in antiquity, regarded by the poet as the land of the Moors, but probably a low country near the North Sea.

Nifland⁠—“the land of fogs,” on the lower Rhine, the home of the Nibelungen.

Normandy or Ormanie⁠—may be the country now known as Normandy, or is perhaps a region near the mouth of the Scheldt, where the name Ormans-kapelle occurs in an ancient map.

Ortland⁠—probably Jutland, under the rule of Ortwin.

Salmé⁠—a fabulous country.

Sealand⁠—Herwic’s kingdom, not the Danish Zealand, but probably the sea-lands of Friesland.

Scotland⁠—spoken of as belonging to Norway.

Sturmland⁠—subject to Wâ-te, adjoining Herwic’s kingdom.

Waleis⁠—the western limit of Hettel’s kingdom, by some supposed to be Wales, but generally thought to be the country near the mouth of the river Waal in Holland.

Wulpensand⁠—an island at the mouth of the Scheldt.