Names of Places

• 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.

• Amilé⁠—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 Gudrun’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.

• Salmé⁠—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.