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    Default Ynglinga Saga

    Heimskringla
    or
    The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway
    The Ynglinga Saga,
    or
    The Story of the Yngling Family from Odin to Halfdan the Black

    1. OF THE SITUATION OF COUNTRIES.
    It is said that the earth's circle which the human race inhabits
    is torn across into many bights, so that great seas run into the
    land from the out-ocean. Thus it is known that a great sea goes
    in at Narvesund (1), and up to the land of Jerusalem. From the
    same sea a long sea-bight stretches towards the north-east, and
    is called the Black Sea, and divides the three parts of the
    earth; of which the eastern part is called Asia, and the western
    is called by some Europa, by some Enea. Northward of the Black
    Sea lies Swithiod the Great, or the Cold. The Great Swithiod is
    reckoned by some as not less than the Great Serkland (2); others
    compare it to the Great Blueland (3). The northern part of
    Swithiod lies uninhabited on account of frost and cold, as
    likewise the southern parts of Blueland are waste from the
    burning of the sun. In Swithiod are many great domains, and many
    races of men, and many kinds of languages. There are giants, and
    there are dwarfs, and there are also blue men, and there are any
    kinds of stranger creatures. There are huge wild beasts, and
    dreadful dragons. On the south side of the mountains which lie
    outside of all inhabited lands runs a river through Swithiod,
    which is properly called by the name of Tanais, but was formerly
    called Tanaquisl, or Vanaquisl, and which falls into the Black
    Sea. The country of the people on the Vanaquisl was called
    Vanaland, or Vanaheim; and the river separates the three parts of
    the world, of which the eastermost part is called Asia, and the
    westermost Europe.
    ENDNOTES:
    (1) The Straits of Gibraltar.
    (2) Northern Africa.
    (3) Saharan and sub-Saharan Africa.
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