Reamsdale
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adapted borrowing of Old Norse Raumsdalr.
Proper noun
[edit]Reamsdale
- (rare, historical) the Romsdal (a valley in North Western Norway, now in Møre og Romsdal county)
- 1908, W. G. Collingwood, Scandinavian Britain (Early Britain), London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, →OCLC, page 18:
- North of the Sogn firth come the Feles (Fialar) and Firths, but past Cape Start, where the land turns and runs north-east, we come to the northern land of the Reams, North and South Mere and Reamsdale, stretching up over two degrees of latitude.
Related terms
[edit]- Reams (“people of the Romsdal”)