"You just now said your maw was no bigger than a fly's head," cried the cook, "and now you devour meat like the crocodiles in the sacred tank of seeland.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
It stands near the north coast of the island of seeland, some five miles from Roskilde and three miles from the sea, in a gentle valley, through the midst of which flows a small stream.
"Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn"
R. W. Chambers
It is usual to find many bodies in the same tomb, often as many as twenty or thirty: in that of Borreby on the island of seeland were found seventy skeletons, all of children of from two to eighteen years of age.
"Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders"
T. Eric Peet