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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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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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