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The Danish History
Books I-IX

PREFACE
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Here also, is reported to bubble up the water of a pestilent flood, which if a man taste, he falls struck as though by poison.

Also there are other springs, whose gushing waters are said to resemble the quality of the bowl of Ceres.

There are also fires, which, though they cannot consume linen, yet devour so fluent a thing as water.

Also there is a rock, which flies over mountain-steeps, not from any outward impulse, but of its innate and proper motion.
And now to unfold somewhat more thoroughly our delineation of Norway.
It should be known that on the east it is conterminous with Sweden and Gothland, and is bounded on both sides by the waters of the neighbouring ocean.

Also on the north it faces a region whose position and name are unknown, and which lacks all civilisation, but teems with peoples of monstrous strangeness; and a vast interspace of flowing sea severs it from the portion of Norway opposite.


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