Throwends
The people of Trøndelag
Noun
- The people of Trøndelag
- Through North Mere pierces the great inland sea of the Throwends, with its numerous creeks and headlands, such as Agda-ness, Nith’s oyce or Nidaros, Frosta the mootstead of the Throwends, each notable from some event in...
- Frey and Tew were the chief gods of the Swedes and Franks, Thunder (Thórr) of the Reams and Throwends in West Norway. - 1892, Frederick York Powell, “Teutonic Heathendom”, in Religious Systems of the World: A...
- With the Thyrings I was, and with the Throwends, And with the Burgends—there I a beigh got, - 1882, Edwin Guest, “The Traveller’s Song”, in A History of English Rhythms, page 381:
Synonyms: Thronds
Origin
Learned borrowing from Old English Þrōwendas pl, from Proto-Germanic *þrōwōną (“to grow, prosper”) + *-ndz. Compare Proto-Norse *þrōwendīʀ pl, whence Old Norse þrǿndir, þrǿndr. Cognate with Norwegian trønder, Icelandic Þrændir and German Drönter.