An ancient scholiast on Adam of Bremen, "paululum Adamo ratione ætatis
inferior," according to his editor, Joachim Maderus, supplies us with a
curious list of the stations in the voyages from Ripa, in Denmark, to Acre,
in the Holy Land. Adam of Bremen's _Ecclesiastical History_ dates toward
the end of the eleventh century, about 1070. His text is as follows:--
"Alterum (episcopatum) in Ripa; quæ civitas alio tangitur alveo, qui ab
oceano influit, et per quem vela torquentur in Fresiam, vel in nostram
Saxoniam, vel certe in Angliam."