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

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

Quotation dates: 1570-1648

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Norland, n. Also: nord-land, norlane. [Reduced var. of Northland.] = Northland n.(a) a1578 Pitsc. I. 202/3. a1578 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 Edinburgh Testaments 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
a1578 Ib. 205/15.
The norland men and wastland men mett the King at Stirling
a1578 Ib. 263/10.
Money of the fer norland men and illis men
(2) 1634 Edinburgh Testaments LVI. 367 b.
Norland plaiding
1644 Glasgow Trades House 237.
30 ells of norlane tweill
(3) ?a1648 Polemo-Middinia 44 n.
Norland-bornus homo

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