Scheeps-togt na Ysland en Groenland, gedaan door Dithmar Blefkenius, in 't jaar 1563. : Waa...

1563.

they fled very startled to the ship, and one of them, who could not escape because he was overloaded with booty, was torn apart by these dogs. Finally, after long wandering and narrowly avoiding the aforementioned swells and whirlpools, they arrived back at Bremen via Muscovy and further past the Baltic Sea, giving a report to the aforementioned Alebrand, Bishop of Bremen, of their experiences and adventures that occurred on this wondrous journey.

When the Northmen came to France.

Before this time, namely in the year 840, under the reign of Carolus Simplex Charles the Simple, the Norsemen, following the example of the Swiss in the time of Julius Caesar, migrated from Norway to France, occupied and possessed a good portion of it—which to this day is still named Normandy after them—and therein not only waged heavy wars against the English and made the sea along the Dutch and Frisian coasts restless and unsafe through their constant raiding, but they also drove the Saracens, who had invaded Italy, out of Apulia and Calabria.

Their Danes

Of their countrymen who had remained at home, some later spread further northward, such as to Shetland, the Faroe Islands, and Iceland. Among other things, their language indicates the correspondence with that of the old Norsemen, which has now changed greatly along the seacoast, especially around the renowned harbor and trading city of Bergen, because of contact with the Germans.

CHAPTER II.

When the Icelanders accepted Christianity.

In the year 1398, Woldemar the Second reigned in Denmark and Norway, whose descendants retained that until Eric, Duke of Pomerania, and Christopher, Prince of Bavaria. Under his rule were also the Icelanders, as they still are, who at his time first received the Christian religion, after having served idols for so long.