Names of Places.

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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.
Amile,—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 Gu-drun’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.
Salme,—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.
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