Norþan

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - norþan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

norþan
Add :-- Þá hwíle cóm Willelm . . . and Harold cóm norðan and him wið feaht, Chr. 1066; P. 198, 4. Se here bræc þone friþ of Hámtúne and of Ligeraceastre and þonan norþan (from north of Leicester), 921; P. 101, 7. Þonne won cymeð nihtscúa, norðan onsendeð hreó hæglfare, Wand. 104 : Seef. 31: B. 547. Se feórða heáfodwind hátte septemtrio; sé blǽwþ norðan, Lch. iii. 274, 23. Wind norþan and eástan Boreas, Bt. 4; F. 8, 6 : Met. 4, 23: Auster, 6, 12. Gefaren tósomne súðan and norðan, Gen. 1988 : Dan. 52 : Sal. 259. Súðan and norðan, eástan and westan, Cri. 885 : Ph. 324. [Icel. norðan. Cf. O. H. Ger. nordana.]

Related words: be-, eástan-, on-, westan-norþan. norþan

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