Crossword-Solution: RUGEN 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

And still another example is seen at the very opposite extreme of Europe, in the legend of the priestess of Hertha in the island of Rugen.

Detained by contrary winds, the fleet did not sail till June, and on the 24th of that month reached the Island of Rugen in Pomerania.

The unknown symbol of the _Earth_, covered with a thick veil, was placed on a carriage drawn by cows; and in this manner the goddess, whose common residence was in the Isles of Rugen, visited several adjacent tribes of her worshippers.

There are three other Bergens,--one in the island of Rugen, one in the Netherlands, and another in the electorate of Hesse.

Svein, Eric, and the Swedish king, with their combined fleets, lay in wait behind some cape in a safe little bay of some island, then called Svolde, but not in our time to be found; the Baltic tumults in the fourteenth century having swallowed it, as some think, and leaving us uncertain whether it was in the neighborhood of Rugen Island or in the Sound of Elsinore.