Wulfstan of Hedeby

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title: Wulfstan of Hedeby
text: Wulfstan of Hedeby was a late ninth-century traveller and trader. His travel accounts, as well as those of another trader, Ohthere of Hålogaland, were included in the Old English Orosius. It is unclear if Wulfstan was English or indeed if he was from Hedeby, in what is now northern Germany near the city of Schleswig but in the 9th century was Danish. According to this account, Wulfstan undertook a journey by sea from Hedeby to the Prussian trading centre of Truso around the year 880. He names th
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description: Late ninth century traveller and trader.
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulfstan_of_Hedeby
date created: 2001-12-16T01:44:43Z
date modified: 2024-09-03T07:49:31Z
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