Ohthere sailed on from Sciringes heal, he reported having first had Denmark to port and a wide sea to starboard for three days, after which for two days he had islands belonging to Denmark on his port side and Jutland (Gotland and Sillende) and many islands to starboard, before arriving at Hedeby, which lay at the head of the Schlei inlet in what was then south-eastern Denmark. It is in Ohthere's description of this part of the journey that the earliest copy of the Old English Orosius gives the first known mention of the term "Denmark", in the form "dena mearc". However, his first reference to Denmark being on his port side presumably makes reference to areas of the 9th-century Danish kingdom that lay on the Scandinavian peninsula. The reason for Ohthere's visit to King Alfred of Wessex is not recorded. There is also no mention in the Old English Orosius of how recent the journeys were when Ohthere described them to the king, where the meeting took place, or the route by which Ohthere arrived in southern England. In modern culture Ohthere's audience with King Alfred is dramatised in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "The Discoverer of the North Cape: A Leaf from King Alfred's Orosius", and Ohthere and his journey appear in the 1957 novel The Lost Dragon of Wessex by Gwendolyn Bowers. Ohthere is portrayed by Ray Stevenson in the historical drama Vikings. References Footnotes Notes Bibliography Dictionary of Old English: A to I online (2018), ed. A. Cameron, A. Crandell Amos, A. diPaolo Healey et al., Toronto, doe.utoronto.ca Bately, J. ed. (1980), The Old English Orosius, Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series 6, Oxford University Press, Bately, J.; Englert, A., eds. (2007), Ohthere’s Voyages: a Late 9th-Century Account of Voyages along the Coasts of Norway and Denmark and its Cultural Context, Maritime Culture of the North 1, Roskilde, (link is to contents page with further link to downloadable PDF) Bosworth-Toller (1898), An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary based on the Manuscript Collections of the late Joseph Bosworth, ed. T. N. Toller, Oxford University Press Bosworth-Toller (1921), An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary based on the Manuscript Collections of Joseph Bosworth: Supplement by T.N. Toller, Oxford University Press Bosworth-Toller (1972), An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary based on the Manuscript Collections of Joseph Bosworth: Enlarged Addenda and Corrigenda to the Supplement by A. Campbell, Oxford University Press Pope, J.C., ed. (1967–68), Homilies of Aelfric: a Supplementary Collection,