i österled

Swedish

Adverb

i österled (not comparable)

1. on the Eastern Way, eastward (used mostly in reference to Vikings)
   • 2015 November 10, Niels-Peter Granzow Busch, “Gotland var världens centrum”, in Världens historia‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-05-31:

     [Detta] tyder [...] på att det inte bara var gotlänningarna som seglade i österled.

     This indicates that it wasn't just the Gotlanders who sailed eastward.

   • 2019 January 8, Vetenskapsradion Historia, “Välkommen till medeltidens närmaste stad!”, in Sveriges Radio‎^[2], archived from the original on 2020-11-24:

     Dessutom om vikingatågen i österled som bedrevs utan skepp!

     Also about the Viking raids eastward that were conducted without ships!

   • 2023, “The Long Ships”, in Norstedts Agency‎^[3], archived from the original on 2023-09-29:

     Röd[e] [O]rm[:] hemma och i österled

     Red Orm: at home and on the Eastern Way

Related terms

• i västerled

References

• österled in Svensk ordbok.