As one moves north, the German lands gradually slope downwards to form a huge plain which spreads along both the Baltic and North seas and finally ends in the peninsula which constitutes Denmark [Jutland]. The border between Denmark and Germany is not marked by any mountains, nor are they separated by a river; rather, their territories are simply divided by drawing a line across the plain. However, the difference between the two peoples is obvious even after a thousand years, and it is as if the boundary were a natural one.

Heaven created all the peoples of the world and made them racially distinct according to where they lived, in the same way that birds and beasts and plants and trees came into being. Languages and customs, demarcated perhaps by mountains or rivers, become matters of habit; they formed the character of the people and gave them a feeling of solidarity, and in this sense the tribal differences between native peoples are mostly Heaven's doing. Germany and Denmark share the same continuous plain, and although their borders may move as a result of human agency, the fact that the difference between the two races is still clear after thousands of years must surely be attributed to Heaven. Believers in Christianity say that in the beginning all people were one and shared the same language, and that the differences came later. How is it possible to believe that?