Kurlanders
What of the day when I first taught them, to run with wood-shod feet over the shore of the Kurlanders
What of the day when I first taught them, to run with wood-shod feet over the shore of the Kurlanders (Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX), The Danish History, > Book Eight.)
And when Ragnar saw that he was hindered, not so much by a natural as by a factitious tempest, he held on his voyage as best he could, and got to the country of the Kurlanders and Sembs, who paid z... (Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX), The Danish History, > Book Nine.)
Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX)
- attestation: What of the day when I first taught them, to run
with wood-shod feet over the shore of the Kurlanders (The Danish History, > Book Eight.)
"What of the day when I first taught them, to run with wood-shod feet over the shore of the Kurlanders, and the path bestrewn with countless points?"
- attestation: And when Ragnar
saw that he was hindered, not so much by a natural as by a factitious
tempest, he held on his voyage as best he could, and got to the country
of the Kurlanders and Sembs, who paid z... (The Danish History, > Book Nine.)
"And when Ragnar saw that he was hindered, not so much by a natural as by a factitious tempest, he held on his voyage as best he could, and got to the country of the Kurlanders and Sembs, who paid zealous honour to his might and majesty, as if he were the most revered of conquerors."
Appears in: Entities in Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX), Norse Tradition