Middle English Dictionary Entry
lōnd-folk n.
Entry Info
| Forms | lōnd-folk n. Also land-folc, land-folk, land-folke, lond-folc, lond-folke, londe-folk. |
| Etymology | OE land-folc |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
The inhabitants of a land, natives.
Associated quotations
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1066 : Þe land folc wendon þet he sceolde cyng wurðen.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)30930 : Þat lond-folc [Otho: lond-folk] wes bliðe for heore leod-kinge.
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)51 : Þat lond folc hem ouer-sette mid felefelde pine and mid swinche.
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)1158 : Oþer þu bodest cualm of oreue, Oþer þat londfolc wurþ idorue.
- c1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)5/43 : Þi lond folk [vr. lond folc] we schulle slon And alle þat Crist luueþ vpon.
- a1325 SLeg.(Corp-C 145)113/110 : Wiþoute ssedinge of blode ne worþ neuere þe sunne ido Of þe lond folk of Engelond, þat no gult nabbeþ þerto.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)1691 : He wende to scotlonde & made him þere gret ost of landfolc [vr. folk] in þe londe.
- c1330(?a1300) Guy(2) (Auch)p.444 : Þe lond folk teld me in speche Þat Gij was gon halwen to seche.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)9752 : Þe wer til end bring sal i sua, And saue þi land folk al fra wa.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)7814 : Þe londe-folk baden þe kyng Of hym make remiweyng.
- 1448 *Glo.Chron.C (Arms 58:Kooper)f.192r : While Lanfranc lyued this William withdrowe him fro wantonesses .. but after his deth he gan to be indeuout to God, cruel to his subiectes, to the landfolke proude and vnmerciable to strangers, full large in prys of his clothyng and his aray ouercostelewe.
- a1450-1509 Rich.(Brunner)1626 : Þe kyng grauntyd..Al hys land-folk to wende hym wiþ.
- a1525 Conq.Irel.(Dub 592)90/17 : By auctoryte of the pope..was to hym I-graunted the lordshype of the lond & þe lond-folke.