Meanings
- historicalrarethe Romsdal (a valley in North Western Norway, now in Møre og Romsdal county).
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.
1908, W. G. Collingwood, Scandinavian Britain (Early Britain), London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, →OCLC, page 18
Origin
- Old NorseRaumsdalr
- EnglishReamsdale
Adapted borrowing of Old Norse Raumsdalr.
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Reamsdale. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Reamsdale
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