Reamsdale

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English

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Etymology

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Adapted borrowing of Old Norse Raumsdalr.

Proper noun

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Reamsdale

  1. (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.
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  • Reams (people of the Romsdal)