NOTE1850
ALFRED'S OROSIUS
By WILLIAM BELL, Phil. Dr. (British Archeological Association)
The two exceedingly valuable elucidations which the geography of King Alfred relating to Germany (intercalated in the royal author's translation of Orosius), has received from your learned contributors MR. R.T. HAMPSON (Vol. i., p. 257.) and MR. S.W. SINGER (Vol. i., p. 313.) induce me to offer some new views on the same subject. From my having passed a long series of years in the countries described, and read and examined all that continental authors, as well as Englishmen, have written or conjectured on the subject, I trust that my opinions, though differing from all hitherto received, may n…
Topics: Geography, Historical Commentary, Translation, Northern Voyages of Discovery
Locations: Germany, White Sea, North Cape, Archangel, Göttingen, Copenhagen, Oxford