Beormaland

Beormaland is landscipe in Russlandes norðdæle þærin buað Beormas. Wina seo ea iernþ in Cwensæ þurh þis land. Æt þæm eamuðan stent Ercengelburg.

In Wicinga spellum we leornaþ be manigum sæfaran to Beormalande, and eac in gewritum oð ðæm 16.gearhunde.

Todæg is þis land Ercengelsclandes dæl on Russum, as eac on Colanæsse in Russlandes gefrorenum norþdæl.

In geardagum foren Normenn to Beormalande. In Ælfredes 'Orosius' leornað we ðe Ohthere seglode fiftiene nihta andlang Norþweges særime norðweard, þan for suþweard a cwom to micle ea on Beormum. He wrat:

“ Þa Beormas hæfdon swiþe wel gebud hira land, ac hie ne dorston þæron cuman. Ac þara Terfinna land wæs eal weste, buton ðær huntan gewicodon oþþe fisceras oþþe fugeleras. Fela spella him sædon þa Beormas ægþer ge of hiera agnum lande ge of þæm landum þe ymb hie utan wæron, ac he nyste hwæt þæs soþes wæs, for þæm he hit self ne geseah. Þa Finnas, him þuhte, and þa Beormas spræcon neah an geþeode. ”

In 920 for Yric Blodæx to þæm lande mid wigum and in hiera cynedomes onswogon Harold II Normanna Cyning and Hacon Magnusson of Norway each, in 1090.