north-land

According to the sagas, the Jotuns occupied the north-land of Europe first.

The Sea of Trolls Nancy Farmer 2004

According to the sagas, the Jotuns occupied the north-land of Europe first.

The Sea of Trolls Nancy Farmer 2004

Nearly midway in that last decade of the last century the golden Yukon swung out of solitude into the vision of the world and there as elsewhere in the vast north-land the Mounted Police were to play a large and brilliantly useful part.

Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police R.G. MacBeth

Clad in furs from head to foot-sole, like one to the north-land reared:

Indian Legends of Minnesota Cordenio A. Severance

The whole scene, set as it was in the purple shadows and yellow lights of the north-land, was fascinating.

Triple Spies 1918

In her numerous tilts with O'Neil she had not been over-successful from the point of view of her magazine articles, but here at her hand was the representative of the power best known and best hated for its activities in the north-land, and he seemed perfectly willing to talk.

The Iron Trail Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

I asked Tetaquash how fire came first to this north-land.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

It breathed of the life of the north-land, for the timbers of the hut were hewn cedar; the rough chimney, the seats, and the shelves on which a few books made a fair show beside the bright tins and the scanty crockery, were of pine; and the horned heads of deer and wapiti made pegs for coats and caps, and rests for guns and rifles.

Northern Lights Gilbert Parker 1897

It breathed of the life of the north-land, for the timbers of the hut were hewn cedar; the rough chimney, the seats, and the shelves on which a few books made a fair show beside the bright tins and the scanty crockery, were of pine; and the horned heads of deer and wapiti made pegs for coats and caps, and rests for guns and rifles.

Northern Lights, Volume 1. Gilbert Parker 1897

It breathed of the life of the north-land, for the timbers of the hut were hewn cedar; the rough chimney, the seats, and the shelves on which a few books made a fair show beside the bright tins and the scanty crockery, were of pine; and the horned heads of deer and wapiti made pegs for coats and caps, and rests for guns and rifles.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897