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Neamdale

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Etymology

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Adapted borrowing of Old Norse Naumudalr.

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Neamdale

  1. (rare, historical) Namdalen (a valley and district of Trøndelag, Norway)
    • 1908, W. G. Collingwood, Scandinavian Britain (Early Britain), London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, →OCLC, page 18:
      North of Throwend-ham or Thrond-heim lies Neam-dale with its coast station, Hrafnista, and, north of that, Haloga-land’s barren five degrees of latitude stretch along by the sea, north-east, ending in West-firth and the great islands that head the Skerry, islands only visited by Finnish fowlers, fishers or huntsmen in those far-off days.