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.
| c 893 K. ælfred Oros. i. ii. 30 He..for mid miclum ᵹefeohtum on Scieðie þa norðland. c 1052 O.E. Chron. (MS. C) an. 1052, Hi hwemdon þa mid þam scypon wið þæs norð landes. c 1470 Henry Wallace ix. 574 On to the se thai send Schyr Jhon Sewart, that weyll the northland kend. 1533 Acc. Ld. High Treas. VI. 123 To ane boy that postit nycht and day in the northland with lettrez. 1738 De 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. 1873 Morris Love is enough 48 Sure the northlands shall know of the blessings she bringeth. 1896 Harper's Mag. Apr. 717/1 The roughest country in all the North-land. |
| attrib. 1552 Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 129 The hevynnis or portis of this realme, at the eist and northland seyis. a 1578 Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 12 Vther hieland men and mony northland men in the meirnis and angus. 1738 De Foe Tour (ed. 2) III. 349 Those whom I have been describing in the North-Land Division. 1840 Carlyle Heroes (1858) 197 The primary characteristic of this old Northland Mythology. |
Hence
ˈnorthlander, one from the
north.| 1845 Thorpe 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. |