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Our King Alfred’s friend, Oht-here, a Haloga-lander,[1]
tells of the fur-trade, which depended mainly on the
yearly tribute from the Finns, each chief of that people
having to furnish 15 martin skins, 1 rein-deer pelt,
1 bear-skin, 1 bear or otter-skin coat, 40 ambers of
feathers, 2 ship ropes of 60 ells (1 of horse-whale skin,
1 of seal-skin). He also spoke of the whale fishing,
especially the chase of the horse-whale or walrus.
He says that as many as sixty were killed by six men
in a day.[2] Their ivory and skins were chiefly
valuable. He notices the port of Sciringshall in the
Wick, which would have been the chief emporium for
Northern Danes and Goths, and of Heaths (the later
Heath-by), which was no doubt the main
trade-centre for Saxons, Danes, and Goths. He gives an
account of his own voyage to Beorma-land, an
expedition of fifteen days’ sail, being three days to
the furthest whale-fisheries’ station used, and three
more days thence to North Cape; four days thence
to where the land lay east, and again five days up
the White Sea, running south, where he reached
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