Meanings
proper noun
alternative Qvenland · alternative Quenland · alternative Cwenland · alternative Kænland
- historicalAn ancient area of Fennoscandia and Scandinavia.
“Nurse,” said Torfrida to the old Lapp woman […] “I will make a charm that will bring him to you, were all the icebergs of Quenland between you and him[.]”
1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 10, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 166
Origin
- Old Englishcwēn
- EnglishKvenland
Possibly Old English cwēn and land. Compare Kven.
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