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northland|ˈnɔːθlənd|
[OE. norðland (see north a.) = G., Da., Sw. nordland, ON. norðrland.]
The northern part of a country, etc.; also pl. the lands lying in the north.
c893K. ælfred Oros. i. ii. 30 He..for mid miclum ᵹefeohtum on Scieðie þa norðland. c1052O.E. Chron. (MS. C) an. 1052, Hi hwemdon þa mid þam scypon wið þæs norð landes. c1470Henry Wallace ix. 574 On to the se thai send Schyr Jhon Sewart, that weyll the northland kend. 1533Acc. Ld. High Treas. VI. 123 To ane boy that postit nycht and day in the northland with lettrez. 1738De Foe Tour (ed. 2) III. 336 The North-land, being all the Country beyond Inverness. Ibid., The third Division of Scotland, called the North-land. 1873Morris Love is enough 48 Sure the northlands shall know of the blessings she bringeth. 1896Harper's Mag. Apr. 717/1 The roughest country in all the North-land.
attrib.1552Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 129 The hevynnis or portis of this realme, at the eist and northland seyis. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 12 Vther hieland men and mony northland men in the meirnis and angus. 1738De Foe Tour (ed. 2) III. 349 Those whom I have been describing in the North-Land Division. 1840Carlyle Heroes (1858) 197 The primary characteristic of this old Northland Mythology.
Hence ˈnorthlander, one from the north.
1845Thorpe tr. Lappenberg's A.S. Kings II. 13 An incessant outpouring of Northlanders over the North and Baltic Seas, in quest of booty and a home. |