Dictionaries of the Scots Language
Dictionars o the Scots Leid

A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

About this entry:
First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Norland, n. Also: nord-land, norlane. [Reduced var. of Northland.] = Northland n.(a) a1578 Pitsc. I. 202/3. Ib. II. 177/12.
He was to ryde to the norland 1591 Innes Sketches 528.
For furnessing of schone sen ye come out of the norland(b) c 1570 Black Bk. Taymouth 135.
My Lord Bodell fled til the nord land

b. ? A northern tune. — a1598 Ferg. Prov. MS. No. 894.
Ise play yow a norland

c. Attrib. and comb.(1) 1577 Edinb. Test. V. 340.
Ane agit norland woman a1578 Pitsc. I. 202/18.
The said Captane Wode to land him in Fyfe and ryde throcht the same to the norland lordis Ib. 205/15.
The norland men and wastland men mett the King at Stirling Ib. 263/10.
Money of the fer norland men and illis men(2) 1634 Edinb. Test. LVI. 367 b.
Norland plaiding 1644 Glasgow Trades House 237.
30 ells of norlane tweill(3) ?a1648 Polemo-Mid. 44 n.
Norland-bornus homo