NPPF Commentary 238, P. 168, Part I

[Jasper Fidget]

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> At the end of the passage, there is an extended reference to King
> Alfred and Mr. Shade's attempt to stop Mr. Kinbote's repeated attempts
> to bring up his own references to Zembla (making it more apparent that
> his harassment of Mr. Shade in this area was not very subtle).  The last
> line of the comment refers us out to his note at line 802.
> 

Othere was a Norse explorer whose account of his arctic voyages (which
almost made it all the way Novaya Zemlya) King Alfred included in the
introduction to his translation of Orosius' 5th century _The Universal
History_.

http://www.bartleby.com/65/oh/Ohthere.html
http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl401/texts/ohthtext.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orosius

See also Longfellow's "The Discoverer of the North Cape"

http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1209/

Jasper