The Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX) on Norway
The Danish History, > Books I-Ix > Preface.
attestation: Norway is described as a craggy, barren land of forbidding rocks where in its furthest part the sun shines continuously.
"Norway has been allotted by the choice of nature a forbidding rocky site. Craggy and barren, it is beset all around by cliffs"
attestation: In Norway's furthest part the sun is not hidden even at night, providing equal radiance to both seasons.
"in its furthest part the day-star is not hidden even by night; so that the sun, scorning the vicissitudes of day and night, ministers in unbroken presence an equal share of his radiance to either season"
attestation: Norway borders Sweden and Gothland on the east and faces unknown uncivilized regions with monstrous peoples to the north.
"on the east it is conterminous with Sweden and Gothland, and is bounded on both sides by the waters of the neighbouring ocean. Also on the north it faces a region whose position and name are unknown, and which lacks all civilisation, but teems with peoples of monstrous strangeness"
attestation: The ocean channel passing Norway turns eastward and widens considerably, bounded by firm land.
"its lower channel, passing the northern sides of Gothland and Norway, turns eastwards, widening much in breadth, and is bounded by a curve of firm land"