[7] Hollseta ‘of the Holsteiners’: This is the gen. pl. of Hollsetar ‘the Holsteiners’ i.e. the people of Holstein (Hollsetaland or Holtsetaland). According to Adam of Bremen (ed. Schmeidler 1917, 72), these people received their name from the forests near which they lived: Holcetae, dicti a silvis, quas accolunt (cf. ON holt ‘forest’). Hollsetu (so F) must be a scribal error. Holstein is a state in present-day North Germany.