[3] Helsingja ‘the people of Hälsingland’: The area in question extended in the Viking Age northwards from the modern province of Hälsingland (located in central Sweden just north of Gästrikland in the south-east of the Norrland region), round the Gulf of Bothnia, and southwards as far as the river Oulu in what is now Finland (Orling 1995, 116-17).